Hjiorst Fjioords
Should property manager send a 1099 for each unit AND for all units combined?
We have five rental units within two addresses. My property manager has provided me with a 1099 for each of the five, but also provided one with the total amount of all combined.I don't think this is right. Do you? ...
Jason Phillips
office for tax deduction
hey yall ill try to make this short. I have rental business , a 9 To 5 , and a freelance daycare cleaning job . At my house i own a separate building once used as a business by previous owners. Im using it as a 840 s...
Lyle Cooper
Real estate professional qualification
The real estate professional rule states:"A taxpayer will be considered a real estate professional if (1) more than one-half of the total personal services the taxpayer performs in trades or businesses are performed i...
David V.
several tax questions
Hello everyone, i just signed up to Bigger Pockets tonight after about reviewing the sites content for about a month. Best site I have come across to date. With this said, I am fairly new to RE investing, I boug...
Ryan Deasy
Designating yourself as a real estate professional
If you pass all of the qualifying tests and indicate at tax time that you’re a real estate professional, does that allow you to use all of your losses to offset gains?i know as a non-real estate professional you are l...
Jeremy Porter
Mastering Rental Property Finances: A Property Manager's Guide to Expense Tracking
Effective financial management is absolutely crucial for achieving success in the competitive and dynamic rental property business. Property managers hold a key position in the process, as they are responsible for ens...
Ben Kirchner
Hire a CPA for my 2017 taxes?
I've always filed my own taxes, with TurboTax. Given the simplicity of my income sources and lack of deductions, this was an easy and less expensive way to handle it. I now have 2 investment properties that I purcha...
Krysta Dugger
Workmans Comp and Liabilty Insurance
Okay- So I am going to make a long story as short as I can. My husband and worked in the vinyl Siding business and roofing for a while now. Running his own crew. We have 1099 our workers. Now he has been approached fr...
Bryan Hancock
Excess Loans Over Basis Tax Treatment For Wrap Sales
Okay...So I have been studying this problem for years since I started doing sub-to purchases/wrap sales and it gets more confusing every time I look at it. I was hoping one of the tax wizards on the board could expla...
Whit Hill
How to determine cost basis? Help!
My husband and I have just sold our longtime home in Michigan. We moved to Tennessee in 2008 and have been renting it out for the past 7 years. Here are the basics: We bought it for 130K 20 years ago and just sold it...