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Can I use the home office deduction if I am already taking a loss on my schedule e? A few CPA's have told me I can but literature I have been reading says otherwise. It states you can't create a tax loss with a home o...
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Investment Info:
Office Space commercial investment investment in Berkeley.
Cash invested: $40,000
After the success of my first deal I realized that I could repeat the process in a building that I was n...
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I run a business from my office at home in Chicago...I am starting to build out a decent size team now, when before all my help was from Independact Contractors (Virtually).I have been looking at some office space.Her...
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Investment Info:
Industrial buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $85,000
Cash invested: $60,000
Sale price: $250,000
5500 square foot industrial building built from masonry and still with t...
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An investor has a building that I'm trying to evaluate, but can't determine which method to go by. Here are the numbers;
Actual Gross Inc $69,600.00
Actual Expenses $(16,224.00)
Vacancy (10%) $(6,960.00)
NOI $46...
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I'm considering buying this 5-unit office building. It's in a stable, mid-sized Midwestern market with a low (5-ish%) office vacancy rate. Currently 3 of the 5 units are rented. One of the others was occupied by the o...
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Hey All,We're planning to expand and would like some suggestions on how to train the new hires. Yes we could type everything up, use a table of contents and then build a continuity type binder, but I was hoping to fin...
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Hi All,
I wanted to know if I would be able to find multi family REO or Preforclosure investments before it becomes public and is all over the internet, by going to the county clerk's office. I know that establishi...
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We are about to close on our first office complex. There are a few units that are vacant and working on getting people in there right away. My partners said that we should advertise every unit to see if we can get b...
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Investment Info:
Office Space commercial investment investment.
Purchase price: $1,270,000
Cash invested: $340,000
Sale price: $2,400,000
Contributors:
Jeffrey Holst
Value add sin...