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My wife and I are just starting in the rental RE. We have purchased a SFR (cash negative) in Sacramento, CA area few months ago. We know that it is currently cash negative but given our income from W2, we are able to ...
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I want to start by going over the benefits of investing in real estate. Then I’m going to go over the common pitfalls real estate investors face. And finally, I’m going to demonstrate how leveraging cash value life ...
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HiI bought two properties this year and sold them for a profit. It is my understanding the profit from those flips will be treated as active income and subject to self employment tax. However I didn't even lift a fing...
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I recently found a property that will cash flow at close to 10% Cap but I think the prospect of the property appreciating in value isn't great. The only potential upside is by increasing the rent a little bit at a ti...
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Ok investors, I've been trying to wrap my head around all these different taxes that rehab/flipping businesses are subject to....cant anyone put the different types into laymans terms or at least point me in the right...
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Welcome to the new year BiggerPockets Community! Many of us have already begun to plan and assess how to improve our businesses for 2022. Some of us, myself included, are still in the process of setting those goals. I...
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I'm looking at a few properties in Phoenix. Can't seem to find anything that yields greater than 4-5 percent return. Would you be ok with that return? Assume down payment is 25%-30%.
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I bought a flip for 60k i sold it for 95k 5 months later the rehab and holding costs were 9k, where do i show the profit? on a schedule D? thanks, also My friend and I bought a property together, we rent it out, do we...