Kel S
Here is the tax letter!
Sorry for the delay. It took me a bit to retype this. Some of the price fields are blank and also where I put "house we purchased", that actually originally read the address or you could put the street name house. Exa...
Anthony Parisi
Gross Rental Yield Calculation Question
Gross Rental Yield: annual rental income divided by my property’s value/price (multiplied by 100 to get the percentage). Where Property's value/price is comprised of the purchase price, all closing costs, and any ren...
Craig Moore
Direct Mail Critera (Listsource) - Thoughts?
Hi BP,I was hoping you all would be able to help me refine my criteria on Listsource. I'm just about ready to buy the list, but I would like to hear what you all think I could change (if needed) with my criteria. I'm ...
Dax Nollenberger
Homeowners Strike Gold With Appreciation on the California Coast
I wrote a blog recently about how Appreciation has historically compared by region and then zoomed into my market in Santa Cruz County. The results were quite fascinating. A 7.98% Compound Annual Growth Rate since 201...
Mats Daniel Skrede
Correct way to write off inventory first yr after purchase?
Good day, all! Last year I purchased my first investment property. In my bid that was accepted, I included in the conditions that I buy the property as is and that everything will be included with the purchase; includ...
Scott Trench
What Macro Data Study Should BiggerPockets Provide to Investors?
Hi Everyone,Last year, @Alec Neita and I built the BiggerPockets Investment Market Index - a study of rent and value increases, year over year, in the 50 most populous U.S. metros. I think that study is useful for in...
Coban Scott
Key Real Estate terms
Hi there, I am new to real estate investing and just finished reading Brandon Turner's book on Real estate investing, he mentioned in some podcasts about how important knowing the terminology is and I was wondering if...
Jorden House-Hay
Closing costs and property value
Hi all! Question: Should closing costs be included in property value (and subsequently in appreciation and ROE)?Context: I've been developing a deal analysis tool based off the walk through in this Bigger Pockets post...
Kyle Lewis
CapEx reserves included in expenses?
I've used a variety of deal analysis calculators and many of them include CapEx estimates/reserves in the 'Expenses' category, like this:Income - Expenses (including CapEx estimates) = NOIBut shouldn't CapEx estimates...
Austin Paulenske
Tax Write Off Questions
Hey guys,This will be the first year I am writing off an investment property on my taxes and I'm having a hard time determining what my Assessed Value Ratio % and my Marginal Tax Rate are for tax season this year. Is ...