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Hello everyone,We recently started investing in real estate in 2020. We are buy and hold investors and currently have 2 doubles in the cleveland area. We got into investing for it's wealth building annd tax benefits. ...
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Good morning all,I am currently on active duty and have been actively investing for the past 2 years. The strategies I have utilized are VA house hacks, VA primary residences into LTRs, and now I fix and flip houses r...
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Hi BP community! I just talked to a financial planner/CPA and she said that depreciation of a rental property can not be written off as a deduction if your household income exceeds 150K. I could not find any proof of ...
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Hi,I think I understand the difference between active and passive income. Passive income applies to most small landlords/owners as they collect rent from tenants. This also applies to investors who collect interest or...
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So, I have read several books and posts on here concerning offsetting income tax with passive loses or depreciation from rental properties, but I am still a little unclear as to how that all works and if I can actuall...
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Hello,Really appreciate advice on the two question below:1. I currently own a LLC with my husband, which has an rental property. I just became a real estate agent. Can I Can I perform real estate agent activities unde...
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I've read some marvelous advice here about a variety of topics, so I'm going to ask this question that is puzzling me about the tax deductibility of my rental expenses.I've been told that I can't deduct expenses due t...
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I already have an e-mail into my attorney/CPA with this question (so don't bother telling me to check with one), but while he's answering the 80 or so e-mails before mine, I thought I'd post this question here to get ...
I have read a lot about advantage of claim "active participation", but no article about any pros on NOT claiming active participation.I have placed a couple of properties in service in 2019 and will have a loss that c...
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My spouse and I own rental properties. Our longstanding property investments had passive loss carryovers from the earlier years that are now going down each year due to passive profits. (The rental market is very stro...