Will Newton
S Corp Formation/Opperation
Hello! married to realtor here, as a realtor my wife is taxed purely as a 1099 worker so we are paying both sides of FICA on our income at this point. we are discussing creating an S corp to reduce this liability but ...
Jared Smith
Becoming Fimiliar with Agents
Hi Everyone,I have recently started diving in want to look at properties that I think could be bought/invested in. The issue is a can't afford them myself. The issue with this is that the Agents that are showing me th...
Mike G.
Buyer advice: House under contract and vandalized
Hello and thank you in advance for your advice.To summarize, we were supposed to close early June and I hadn't heard any updates so I reached out to the seller. He just now informed us the house was robbed and they ha...
Michael Guydish
STR newbie looking for more info
I am a newbie looking to house hack and get into STR’s in the future. I have a passion for hospitality and I am graduating from SJSU soon with a hospitality degree. My question today is how can I find out if a house f...
Matt Liu
How to do due diligence on an Office Tenant?
I am looking seriously at a single tenant office building. The only problem is that the area is not very good, so ALL bets are on this one tenant (a non-profit that "helps provide services to more than 10000 people wi...
Christopher Morin
Is this price-fixing or good market research?
I own a rental property amongst a group of townhomes governed by an HOA. I'm considering soliciting the members of the HOA to put together a collective "worksheet" where the current landlords can see what the other p...
Alex Medina
Analyzing house hacks
What am I doing wrong?I’m trying to figure out how to analyze a house hack. I’m moving to Denver, CO. And I’m looking at house hacks and I can see it working with me living in the home, but the rent in the area won’t ...
Brandon Addison
Are there Solo 401-K-like options for Independent Contractors?
I've done some reading on the advantages of Solo-401K options (this article was awesome!).I am hoping to use funds from my adjunct teaching to invest in real-estate and was hoping I'd be able to shelter this income by...
Rio Tomlin
Commercial Building, Known "Friend" Tenant
Hello BP community! I'm posing this unique question because it can be cut and dissected so many ways, I'm looking for feedback across the board. Any thoughts or opinions or comments are more than appreciated!Friend ...
Jacob Higginbottom
To cash out refinance or not
I have a rented investment single fam condo that has about 60% equity and cash flows about $220/mo. It's in an ARM at year 15 at 5.125% and rising. I'm considering a cash out refi to bring it to about 40% equity or 60...