Joel Adams
Providing a Building Loan to an Unrelated Party from a SDIRA
I originally posted this in the Lending forum, but after reviewing, I believe it is more appropriate in this space.I own a bare parcel of commercial property in Montana that is unencumbered. I have a buyer that would ...
Edward Bell
Long Term Leasehold Interest as an Investment?
Hi all,I’m hoping for some guidance with a few questions about non fee simple Long term real estate investments and how they are viewed by institutional/ large real estate investors.I’m new to this so first I want to ...
Mark Forest
Charging for your time after tenant leaves
After tenants leave and you find damage you will of course send them an itemized list of the cost of materials to fix the damage to explain why they are not getting any or all of their security deposit back. How do y...
Annette Holbrook
Hot tub decision. If so how big and where to put it?
I have a cabin in the North Georgia mountains. A hot tub seems to be common in the higher end rentals. The cabin closest to mine does offer one. I’m trying to decide if it actually is a draw and will get used. I mean ...
Chris Moore
how to speak directly with seller
Going through two agents (seller/buyer) is a real pain when you are trying to negotiate with a seller and leaves plenty of room for miscommunication. I've used the power of the internet to connect directly will seller...
John Hyre
Wholesaling in retirement accounts not legit
Carl Fischer had reminded me of an article I wrote two years ago. The gist: Wholesale deals in retirement accounts will get crushed by the IRS once they get around to auditing them.The Mazzei Roth IRA Case – An End ...
Ellie Narie
Tax assessed value or appraisal value to calculate depreciation?
I just bought a house-hack 4plex in 2020. I don't have any other rentals. Filing taxes now, so just had a few questions.
1. When calculating depreciation, I heard you're supposed to use the assessed value based on t...
Julia Hagen
Do I count my "Doors"?
I have three homes, some of which I've subdivided into individual units, one of which has an attached granny, one a remodeled garage studio, and another in which I just remodeled the master suite add-on into a large s...
Matt Millard
Great Depression Coming Soon?
Several months ago I posted about Austrian Economics & hard assets & preparing your real estate business for recessions big & small. It stayed on top of the thread wall for a week & got hundreds of res...
Bill S.
Motley Fool and Rentals
www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/08/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-your-first-rental-property.aspx
This had some good points but I would say if you are only looking at 5 year return then RE is not your game. Also...