Jason Conner
Build to sell. Spec house funding.
I have all the elements needed to build a spec house to sell. Husband and wife agents with luxury brand, own a construction business, licensed General Contractor, retired army officer, successful spec projects in 200...
Jeff S.
Deductible or not deductible?
A big surprise! We went to a RE conference in Irvine CA (Think Realty) (I live in Oregon) and the whole thing was rather expensive. It was much like a BP conference with even some of the same experts as the (a few yea...
Paula Rodriguez
Write-off's when investing in real estate *not* as an LLC
Hey everyone,If one does not form an LLC and still invests in RE continually under their own name can they still write off travel, hotel stays, meals, educational material, seminar attendance costs, purchase of a car,...
Kevin Sobilo
Hiring an employee with performance based pay
My main strategy so far has been BRRRR and like many people I have been the cog that makes the machine turn. So, with that there are limits to how fast I can accomplish things. I've been pondering how to adjust my rol...
Kyle Houlahan
Real Estate LLC, Net Loss/Tax Deductions
Hello everyone, my name is Kyle and I've recently decided to begin investing in real estate. After finding myself on BiggerPockets almost daily reading through posts, I've decided to join!Long-story short, I've create...
Jeremy Hunsberger
Investor from Pennsylvania
Hello all, Im a part-time investor looking for buy and hold properties. I currently own 13 units and counting. I do mostly buy and hold but will do a flip if the deal makes sense. My goal is to purchase 20+ units at a...
Jason C.
Rental Dwelling Insurance
I wanted to see if anyone can provide feedback on Rental Dwelling insurance. I currently use Statefarm and my premium just went up from $450 a year to $500 for the year. Now I know this isn't a big jump in cost on a d...
Josh Klein
Note-on-Note Lawyer Needed (Small Balance Loans)
There is a niche in the hard money lending market. Most large hard money lenders leverage their loans with a line of credit from a bank. However, smaller scale lenders (less than $3,000,000 in loan tape) don't have ac...
AJ Felix
Just starting out scenario
What would a beginner and successful buy and hold investor do in this scenario. The scenario is you are just starting out and have $100,000 cash to begin investing in real estate, you also have no debts besides reside...
Casey Cu
Depreciation on Fixup
Hi, Purchased a foreclosed property, ready to rent n 10/15/07
I redid most things...
Here is how I planned on depreciating, but called IRS to ask a question, and they seemed to imply that all of these should be adde...