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I've never hired an EA or CPA before and need advice on vetting them to avoid being taken advantage of. I feel capable of handling my accounting in general, but I primarily need help with taxes for my real estate and ...
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Hi, My name Dakari and I’m trying to get into real state investing
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I am reading that the mortgage deduction is going to be for loans up to 750k on new deals for primary residency....., how about for rental properties? is that any different? is this capped to 750k total or is it per...
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As a bit of background, I live in Los Angeles, my investments consist of sfh in Ohio and one vacation rental here in California. Before I began investing, I got my CA real estate license (Its now expIred), signed on w...
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My wife and I sort of stumbled into the world of REI recently. We are both in our late 50s and are looking to get involved with investing as a means of continuing our income after we retire and building wealth. We a...
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I am interested in becoming a private money lender. Whom might someone like me contact in order to get an initial start-up loan/funding? Some people have told me that you need to use your own money, however I just wa...
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Good Morning BP,As Tax Season approaches, and this being my first full year of real estate investing, I realize that the one task that I personally am absolutely am horrible at and hate doing is bookkeeping. I have t...
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I've seen a lot of posts about people eager to start an RAL and wanted to share some of the costly lessons I have learned and hopefully you can realize it before embarking on these projects. I've noticed the usual pos...
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Take a look at this graph:What do you see?What RECENT "buy" opportunities do you see in the overall market?When do you think it was more difficult to find a "deal" on real estate, in 2011 or 2019? How about today?It's...
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I have been doing HML for a few years. Really enjoy it and the returns have been pretty good. Am I crazy for wanting to start a private fund for HML? I really don't know anything about it except it requires SEC paperw...