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Hi, I will be starting my first job next September in Atlanta Georgia and am looking for some advice. Instead of renting, should I just buy real estate when I move there? I will be making around $110,000 annually and ...
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Good morning everyone!
I just wanted to take sometime and ask a couple of questions about getting started in the real estate space. My wife and I are both currently public school educators and I also happen to be a c...
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Hey guys,I'm in my late 20's looking to purchase my first piece of real estate. I currently am wasting away my money paying nearly $800 in rent at an apartment. I'm not sure how much flood insurance costs on a duplex ...
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This post was prompted by a discussion with an investor who approached my firm for tax strategizing. The investor was particularly concerned about receiving proactive tax advice. As opposed to, you know, retroactive t...
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I am currently at a job making a really great yearly wage. Around 150K a year. So getting approved for mortgages is no issue yet. My question is after I scale up and make enough cash flow to sustain my life style I’d ...
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For San Francisco Bay Area, the heart of booming high tech industry, it seems that the sky has (again) no limit. The huge influx of venture capital has started a trend where for the past 3 years young professionals ar...
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I had a question about being a "Qualified Real Estate Professional". I'd like to use Cost Segregation Studies on my commercial properties to offset income from my businesses. For 2021, I started to accurately log all ...
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Hey everyone,I was presented an opportunity to purchase a condo in this apartment complex. It is a unique situation because originally the developers were selling it as condos and after the market crash they switched ...
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When my husband died, I had enough life insurance to pay off our home. I soon realized that it was too much for me and started renting it out. I purchased a smaller home for myself. Now I am planning on selling the re...
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Looking for a duplex to house hack, but the NYC metro area has a lot of 2/2 condo/co-op/ or apartment units, which from my understanding you can treat a condo house hack the same you would as duplex? What's the short ...