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Hello everyone, my name is Tasha Willingham. I am a beginner in the real estate investing world's, but have been wanting to get started for several years. I never got started because I don't have the funds or A-1 cred...
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Hi everyone, my name is Jed Forster from Antigo Wisconsin, a small town in northern Wisconsin. I'm relatively new to the site and a newbie, I am actually only 16 years old but already interested in real estate as I ha...
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Hey everyone!Just curious as to (on average) how much everyone pays for their year end tax filing from a CPA who handles REI's or how much someone should expect to pay for this? I'm wondering if I am paying a lot more...
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What is the best service to use for skip tracing?
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I'm currently working with a realtor who himself is a real estate investor. He's helping me to narrow down a potential multi-family property that I will be house hacking, (the deadline I have given myself to be in it ...
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So, here is what happened. I have a 4 storey commercial office building in another country and 2 storeys out of 4 storeys were vacant.We had 2 sub meters installed, whatever the electricity bill came from authority, w...
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Will I still have to pay long term capital gains tax? (just closed on the sale)
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Thank you in advance forum members. I need clarification on whether the 2-out-of-5-Year Rule would apply in our situation to get full exclusion from capital gains tax.We live in CA and had purchased a condo in Jan 200...
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I purchased a 4-plex in 2016. Two of the 4 units were empty, so we did some repairs on those units (new carpet, tile and paint), plus we installed a new roof, repaired an exterior wall and fixed potholes in the parkin...