Sam Tright
What strategies are you using to minimize taxes?
Since note dividends are taxed at the same rate as regular income, and there are no tax benefit like depreciation or mortgage interest deductions, I am looking back to real estate to help avoid keeping 63% or less of ...
Neil Narayan
America’s Boomtowns: Top Cities for Economic Growth
Austin was recently deemed one of the top "boomtowns" in the country based on a study by CoWorking Cafe ranking America's "boomtowns" based on population growth, GDP, employment rates, and other economic factorsFort W...
Ian Turner
Solo 401(k) with Husband/Wife Tax/Non-Tax Funds?
Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on how I can best structure my retirement account real estate investments to leverage my real estate knowledge for these long-haul accounts. Background: Experienced and diverse rea...
Audrey Spina
Securing lending as a business owner? Help needed!
HI BP Members!I currently own a retail business in Brooklyn NY and am ready to expand my investments into real estate. OOS multi-family is the goal. I'd like to take the first step of getting an idea of what I could q...
Tiffy W.
LLC's R/E losses to Personal Income tax 1040
Hi,I am a R/E investor that is seeking the community's thought on the following tax related questions. Please feel free to chime in and provide your two-cents. Appreciate any help in advance.Background Information: I ...
Kevin Kaczmarek
Solo 401k
I posed this question in one of the groups, and wanted to get insight from the BP community as a whole to see what experiences people have had investing with a Solo 401k. Being able to contribute $46,000 to a retireme...
Steven Williams
Can I legally bypass a listing agent in this case?
I have recently talked to a motivated seller who received a piece of my direct mail. The numbers are tight, however, if I can work with the seller directly and he doesn't have to pay the realtors commission I belie...
Luis Aguilar
Any info. on the "TMM GROUP CA, LLC" plz?
Hello BP community, So a friend of mine (that is a beginning investor like me) told me about this company called TMM GROUP CA, LLC. He said he paid his $300.00 fee and was provided tons of info via phone for a few hou...
Bill Mitchell
How to spend money you EARN in an LLC
I am gearing up to set up an entity in the form of an LLC. My question is, when you earn money that is made payable to your LLC, how do you spend it?
You can't commingle funds, so how do you spend the money y...
Robert Gerrard
how should a buyer broker commission be handled in an LLC
So I'm fairly new in this game. I'm a partner in an LLC with two very close friends. I'm a licensed Realtor, they are both unlicensed contractors. We recently bought a Fannie Mae property and I was compensated 1% c...