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I got laid off from my job about a month ago. I see it as an opportunity to follow my dreams. I want to begin investing in real estate.
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Hello Everyone,Not sure if this is the right forum for my question, but perhaps someone may steer me in the right direction if is isn't. Looking for some advice on how to make my current situation with my mortgage mo...
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Hello! Landlords, homeowners and RE Investors in Calgary, here's a recent article from the Canadian Real Estate. After months of declining oil prices, job losses, and the subsequent rise in vacancy rates, landlords in...
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I have been doing tons of educating on investing for several months now and was curious as to how you all got started? What was your first deal and how did it turn out? What area of real estate are you focused in a...
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I am going to take course in real estate agent. But I have some challenges. Like I cant drive and just recently I lost job. I been planning to do real estate agent before job loss, but have got to it yet. I been looki...
I've been driving around in my local neighborhood, up and down, side to side, on every street. There are some properties that I know for sure are distressed. What I look for is stuff like garbage bag windows, boarde...
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The tax benefits of bonus depreciation can lead to massive savings but losses won’t help one bit if you can’t use them.
Before you buy a cost seg, you need to know the rules:
Tax all starts with the types of income....
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I've been reading old posts about the "real estate professional" status (of which there are many) but it isn't clear to me if flippers can utilize losses from their rental properties if they don't self-manage their pr...
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Hello, has anyone approached this issue and was able to overcome it? We are considered high earners and not able to take the passive income loss on schedule E due to the $150k cap thus unable to enjoy the depreciation...
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Hi BP,I’m struggling to calculate the potential tax benefits for owning a real estate investment property. My research has shown that the following are the greatest available rental investment property tax write offs:...