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Real Estate Investing
Real Estate rental income is earned when a real estate is leased for rental income generation. Rental income generally is treated as unearned or passive income for income tax purposes. Rental income is reported on Sch...
Slawek Jakubowski
K-1 loss (box 2) vs capital gain from sale of investment property
Hello everyone,I sold my investment property last year and realized a capital gain. I also invested in a syndication for which I received my first K-1, where box 2 shows a net rental real estate loss. Can I use that ...
George P.
(income tax question) Active vs. Passive
My CPA advised that since I will be managing the rental myself, rental income qualifies as Active (=earned) income (vs. Passive).
Does that sound right?
Manson C.
$25k Passive Loss to Offset Ordinary Income
Hello. My adjusted gross income is under $100,000, and so the passive loss (including phantom loss from depreciation, deductions from mortgage interest and property tax, etc.) from my rental properties will be offsett...
Stephen Sawrie
the "real estate professional" and grouping elections
As always, my apologies for overly basic/simple questions, although I am not sure this one would qualify for either. My apologies also for the length of this post, typos, etc. Anyway, here goes…I am trying to establ...
Bryan Hancock
New Syndication Forum!
I am very excited that we have a special forum for syndication and fundraising for CRE now. There has been a group on BP for about a year that has grown considerably, but now we will have a forum on the main page.
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Eric P.
Rental Real Estate Loss Allowance making over $150k...
Can someone better help me understand how the Rental REal Estate Loss Allowance works? I was surprised to find out I'm going to owe $3,800 in taxes this year. I have just over $17,000 in losses from our rental prope...
Thomas C.
Active Participation - Anyone have audit experience with this?
I've seen people in the BP forums with differing opinions on the topic (shocker!). Some say as soon as you get a Property Manager you are passive no matter what. Others quote the readily available Internet information...
Derik S.
Passive Investing or Active Investing: What makes more profit?
My fellow investors, and RE pros, I need your opinion. This would also be a good question for #AskBP. While I would think active investing (you know, wholesaling, flipping, being a landlord) as well as value adding to...
George P.
offset rental income with rental loss ?
trying to find the answer but cannot find anything useful.... * I have a rental property that produces 7k rental income/yr.* I want buy a (vacation) rental property that will produce 9k of rental loss/yr.* our MAGI ex...