Elio Mariani
Holding property in LLC/Corp
I plan to buy a rental property with cash from personal assets (stock market) and I plan to have the title held in an s-corp, for liability protection. Is there liability protection value in having the s-corp borrow...
Erica Moore
Worth it to allow pets?
I'm setting up a new rental (large SFR with backyard) in Cozy and can't decide if I should allow pets or not. My current tenants don't have pets, so it didn't come up previously, but with the new listing I'm leaning t...
Amber Gonion
St. Paul follows Minneapolis lead in limiting landlord rights
A little heads up from our local realtor association “The City Council on June 3 postponed a public hearing and vote on the SAFE Housing Tenant Protections, which would mandate several measures meant to protect tenant...
Tyler Baldwin
IRS finalizes Cost Segregation Rules (and timeline)
The treasury dept and IRS just released the final set of regulations for the popular 100% bonus depreciation schedule. And great news for the Real Estate pros trying to avoid taxes... the “placed in service” date was ...
Eric T.
Out of State Investing
Since CA doesn't seem like a very efficient option, I've taken to exploring my options out of state. Just from browsing the forums it seems many members recommend places like TX, GA, AZ, Vegas etc. However, I thought...
Jason Yarusi
Mobile Home Parks vs Self Storage vs Shared Workspace
If you are choosing based on cash flow and on two different scenarios, which route would you prefer.Scenario 1- Which path would you choose if each space is operational and upside is in the management inefficiencies.S...
Account Closed
Seattle market?
Is it just me or is the seattle market a hard market to cash flow? I mean even kent/renton, auburn, Des Moines to even north seattle, all the markets seem expensive. I always see people post about buying a duplex for ...
Kevin Forsythe
Move-out Inspection with hostile tenant Wisconsin
I'm in Wisconsin and I have a tenant that will be moving out of apartment in a few days. As we get closer to them leaving they are getting more hostile and keep threating legal action unless they get 100% of security...
Wendell De Guzman
How Do You Predict The Next Real Estate Crash? Mine is...
Mine is foreclosure filings and REO sales.Let me explain.In 2007, I was working on 20 shortsales and a business partner of mine was working on about 40 shortsale cases. None of the shortsales were accepted. This was u...
Chris Mason
VA Loan for 2-4 units, what you need to know. Active or EAS'd.
Yay for having Military Investing Forum!
Off the top of my head, these are some of the most common questions/answers/issues that come up when trying to use a VA loan to purchase a 2-4 unit property. Basically my only...