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Projecting Major Disaster areas when investing
2006 may be a dangers time when investing in real estate so projecting your potential for disaster can be a great aid to your success.
History shows the following over ...
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Hi! New to BiggerPockets, I look forward to helping members with the tax aspects of anything related to their activities as a Realtor, Appraiser, Lender, Real Estate Investor, or Other Real Estate Professional.I have...
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma my partner and I have come across a bunch of flood damaged SFR and MFR properties at huge discounts. We buy and hold but are in a position to change course if it would make financial...
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I currently own two triplexes. The first I bought with a VA loan and no money down. The second I bought with an FHA loan and very little down. If I had put 20% down, both properties would cash flow beautifully. But wi...
In my home town there are 2 interesting properties. One property is in a great neighborhood, but has been vacant since the owner died 3 years ago. My real estate agent tried to get in contact, but got no reply. I'm...
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In my practice we have had a couple recent deals that involved Option Contracts so I wanted to share some different ways to work with a potential client that is involved in a Lease with Option to Purchase Contract. Mo...
CALM INVESTMENTS, LLC and MALCOLM POINTON (or whatever alias he is using at this time) is a not to be trusted with your money. I gave a loan to Malcom and Calm investments over two years ago and have not received a si...
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My husband and I have been doing this pre-construction thing since '05 and didn't know real estate would take a dump. We built one for 230,000 and now it's worth 190,000!! Holy Crap, how what? Our mort. payment whe...
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Investment risk can be defined as the probability or likelihood of occurrence of losses relative to the expected return on any particular investment. Stating simply, it is a measure of the level of uncertainty of achi...
I am a newbie passive investor and trying to understand tax implications of selling a rental property which has passive suspended losses. I don't have a primary residence (i myself live is an apartment), and recently ...