Dave Ketcham
Cash-out refinancing as a tax strategy for retired owners?
A business partner of mine is in a partnership that owns an apartment building worth about $3M. They've been upgrading units as they've become vacant, which has reduced the monthly cash flow temporarily with expectat...
David Rivera
Help and Ideas needed for Financing
Good Afternoon BP,So this is my dilemma......I am looking to finance a deal that has come my way and I was looking to see if there was anyone out there that could help or give advice. Here are the numbers>Purchase ...
David Rivera
Help and Ideas needed for Financing
Good Afternoon BP,So this is my dilemma......I am looking to finance a deal that has come my way and I was looking to see if there was anyone out there that could help or give advice. Here are the numbers>Purchase ...
Joseph Niedermeyer
Newbie question on personal income and rental income deductions
Long time lover of real estate but relative newbie to investing. It’s tax Season and in doing our 2019 taxes I asked about strategies for reducing taxes. I made just shy of $100k last year and want to start investing ...
Keith Thompson
Deduction phase-out question.
Although I owed a duplex as a primary residence in the past, I'm just now getting into multi-families as investment vehicles- mostly buy and hold for cash flow. My income is moderate, but combined with my wife's we re...
Treza Edwards
Cash Flow Corrections
How can I correct cashflow issues if I have 3 properties? 2 are not cashflowing with the required expenses for vacancy at 10%, repairs at 10% and capital expenditures at 5%. Although I have 2 steady tenants in the pro...
Joe Wood
Reducing taxable income ideas
Hello everyone,Interested to see what are some good ways to increase deductions in order to reduce taxable income. I am already acquiring one more property, but looking to see if anyone has some creative ideas out there.
Jay Boyle
Are security deposits income on the profit and loss sheet?
Hi I am new to apartments. I presently have a 90 unit under LOI. The financial data I received from the seller shows the incoming security deposits as income and the outgoing security refunds as expenses. is this typi...
Peter Schuyler
High Earned Income and putting money into Real Estate Business
If you have high earned income and can funnel some of the extra money into your passive real estate business to make repairs etc that supplements the passive cash flow, can you still write these expense of as business...
Phil T.
Where do you keep your reserves?
I'm working on buying my first buy and hold and am trying to figure out the best way to work bank the accounts. I plan on creating a checking and a linked savings account specifically for RE. I was figuring I'd have...