Brett Trammell
Bonus depreciation without being a real estate professional
My wife and I bought our second rental property last fall - a 4-plex. I’ve been hearing about taking the bonus depreciation and while it sounds like it would be a great strategy if we were full-time real estate profe...
Ingrid Nagy
REO's changing brokers frequently
I've noticed that some of the lenders are changing brokers after a few months or withdrawing their listings and signing up with other brokers with lower listing prices. Is this customary? I'm also finding some "inte...
Ben Roberts
Self Directed HSA / IRA and Retirement planning
I just listened to the BP Podcast Ep. 49 with Amanda Han and caught a little nugget about investing using a self-directed HSA. After doing a little research (read: half an hour on Google) It seems that I can deposit ...
Kurt Brooks
House payment options
62,retired,zero debt. Buying 1st house monthly income fromSS and small company pension is $2720,I have $1,520,000 in a rollover IRA. My question is should I just withdraw money from IRA and buy the house, or is there ...
Brian C.
Rent to tenants with history of late rent payments?
I talked to an applicants current landlord and he said that the tenants are late with rent 50% of months over a 2 year period. However they are honest and always pay eventually including all late fees.
I talk...
Shane Humes
Strategy for transferring personal money to LLC
To get started in real estate investing, I am creating an LLC. In order to start, I will need to give my "LLC" self some money from my "personal" self for down payments, rehab costs, etc. I would like to eventually ...
Marsharen DuPont
401K/403b retirement account question
Hello All!My name is Marsharen and I have a question in relation to retirement accounts. If possible, how would I go about using funds from my 403b as a down payment toward my first property (which will be owner occup...
Kaylee Loomer
How should I be investing at 18?
To be honest this is a bit off the topic from real estate but I am a bit puzzled as to how I should be investing into the stock market. I’ve learned all there is to investing into Roth IRAs, Index Funds and ETFs, but ...
Aaron Pike
How much in the bank before first purchase?
I just joined BP today and very excited to interact with the community here. I am sure this question has been posed before (I searched recent forum posts but didn't see exactly what I was looking for). How much did yo...
Michael Perna
David Greene!? Crypto? Scam!?
Hello! Has anyone worked with David Greene!? i feel like I’ve been scammed out of my money and it’s very unsettling from such a great place like Bigger Pockets…I invested $5000 into his crypto trading platform, a...