Hiron Fernando
Fractured Condo - Help with Financial Model
My partner and I are under contract on a 30+ unit fractured condo deal in DFW. Obviously, we are in the middle of an interesting time and I want to make sure our financial model is modeling everything conservatively. ...
Brandon Beatty
Scaling Short term rental business?!
Hey Everyone,I am looking for feedback from those who have scaled a short term rental business. 20+ Airbnbs. questions:-what does your team look like?-how often do you do a “market survey” to check other properties?-h...
Bryan Hancock
Do You Carry Your Properties At Historical Cost Or Mark Them To Market?
When you do your accounting for your PFS, business books, etc. do you carry the projects at historical cost or mark them to market? If you mark them to market how do you determine "true" market value without cheating...
Bob Malecki
Brother in law as disqualified party?
My brother in law wants to use is self directed IRA to invest in our 506(b) private equity fund. His custodian, Equity Trust says that because I'm a 33% managing member of the fund, that I am a disqualified party. T...
Jason Malabute
underwriting vacancy amount
One of the biggest concerns when underwriting is when increasing rents by over 100 dollars and doing value projects, how much should vacancy increase in year 1. I talked to more experienced investors. Experienced inv...
Rich Schroeder
disagreement day
We often debate political issues, mostly staying within our political "lines". I'd like to discuss issues in which you DISAGREE with your own party. I'll start off by taking the stance that, while I disagree with gay...
J Scott
Republican Abortions
How deep does the hypocrisy run when the Republican party deliberately chooses to cover elective abortions in their employee health insurance package?
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/11...
Viral Patel
FEE SIMPLE transaction for donation
Hi,I am planning to do invest in fee simple transaction to get 5:1 deduction. I do know that up until last year conservation easement (CES) was way to go but since now IRS has reduce to 30% of AGI it make more sense t...
Joshua Dorkin
Obama wins Nobel prize
I rarely jump into our politics forum, but this has me shaking my head. All I have to say is:
Are you serious????? :roll:
I'm just completely confused as to what is going out on planet earth!
Richard Warren
July 4th, 2009: National protest to register independent
On July 4th it's time to re-declare your independence. There will be an organized demonstration in Washington D.C. The people who brought you the April 15th Tea Parties have teamed with http://www.freeandequal.org/ ...