I live in California and own a few properties in the midwest, and I have heard not-so-great things about using LLCs for small-time investors (i own mostly SFHs and townhomes), like it's more difficult to get a loan to...

Looks like it's about 1K per transaction, but the 45 day limit of getting something under contract seems really unrealistic, almost pushing people to buy the first crappy deal. It takes time to find deals and since yo...

Last year was the first time that I filed taxes for my rental portfolio. Call me lazy but I ended up using the CPA which was being used from one of the previous owners of a property I had purchased. I didnt look aroun...

If I have an existing LLC, am I able to switch the owner to be a self-directed IRA? What factors need to be taken into account for a situation like this? 

Hey BP! I need some help.

My Uncle owns a home with significant equity. My family, Uncle Included, want to take advantage of this equity to invest in real estate. Thing is, of course, there are a few hoops to...

I was offered quite a bit above market price (around 300K more than it's worth in the current market) on my 2 family property by a developer that is looking to knock it down as part of a larger project on my block due...

So i understand you can record the structure portion of the property as depreciation as a paper expense.  But do I have to?  I expect the cash flow to be so small that taking the depreciation makes no difference.  If ...

Hello everybody i finally managed to gather enough capital to finally venture into some texas tax deed deals and was wondering what types of pit falls anyone has run into. I've read and researched as much as i possibl...

So I made a mistake.We sold a rental property and I assumed that we had to do 1031 exchange to avoid capital gains tax. My bad. I didn't double check for exceptions.$850 later, thinking I was so smart for doing 1031, ...

Hello,My husband and I are looking into selling of our first rental property. We bought it in 2010 as a primary residence (so under our personal name), and later converted it to a rental (still under our personal name...