CL Ziegler
Better to pay off loans, or keep a permanent note?
Hi everyone…
I see people on the boards here speaking about paying off mortgages on their rental units, as if that is a desirable goal. What do you think?
My first influence in pondering owning rentals ...
Chris Stranad
Repositioning Acquired Tenant & Unit in Multi Family Property
So I closed on my first multi a few months ago, a quadplex. This was the previous owners only property & he self managed. The property was fully leased far below market value so I have been expecting to update the...
Aaron Moayed
Anyone Actually Able to Depreciate?
It seems like a lot of people here are getting about $100-200 in + CF for SFR. Anyone have tax strategies to take advantage of being able to depreciate the property? Depreciation allows for much more than this, so I’m...
Account Closed
When You Always Want More: Satisfy Your Wanting Mind
I remember Christmas Eve as a child. I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep. I wanted to be awake every second until the morning came. I didn’t want to miss anything! But inevitably I’d arrive at the Christmas tree th...
Jenny Keffer
Help! Property Management Question
My husband and I own one property which we hired a property management company to manage. From the beginning, it has been problems with the management company. We decided to wait until after the first of the year to t...
Robert Blade
Leveraging at age 52
Should I be leveraging rental property for 30 years at age 52 or should I be paying them off? I have 3 homes leveraged and one paid off and was thinking about leveraging more.
Peter Walther
Rising incidents of forged deeds in South Florida
I thought I'd post this recent article on cases of forged deeds on the rise. As I recently posted, South Florida has always had some of the highest numbers of real property fraud in the country. This shows the value...
Gebson Pinheiro
Advice to reduce taxes selling RE to buy retirement mutual funds?
I have properties that I'm selling to buy REIT mutual funds as I'm nearing retirement (don't want to deal with the hassles). Any advice on how to not get killed in taxes as I make this transaction? Less than $1 mill...
Alex Failaev
MD Rental license restrictions - new proposed law
Has anyone in the Maryland area heard about the new law that was introduced on 2/7/20 to allow for the limitation of rental licenses being issued?HB1199 is the name - just sent to us by our local SOPOA to make us aware
Jon Gable
Interest rates vs rents
I've been thinking a lot about interest rates, specifically, how I'm afraid of missing the boat on what are still historically pretty low rates. My question is this: do rents trend with interest rates? It seems l...