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Nadine Hylton Real Estate Investing vs 401K (et al)
22 March 2017 | 13 replies

I realize a lot of investors start off by using monies from their retirement portfolios, whether its a 401k, IRA etc. Seems like everyone agrees that they enjoy a better rate of return in real estate than these conven...

Deb L. Special assessment -expense or depreciate?
4 September 2018 | 8 replies

I have owned a 30-year old condo for about five years that I have rented out the entire time I have owned it.  The roof is original, has been patched but still not fixed.  The condo is doing a special assessment of ab...

Preston Patterson Help Me Structure Partnership Agreement. Im bringing $15k Cash.
20 October 2022 | 7 replies

Hey everybody,
So my father and I are looking to go into a partnership to purchase my first MFR property. I am bringing $15k cash to the deal. My father is bringing $65k cash as a hard money investor.  The occupied 2...

Dan C. Structuring Private Family Loans
19 July 2022 | 1 reply

I recently bought a cash-flowing duplex and SFH home. I am house-hacking the SFH and the split will be somewhere around 28% personal and 62% business. Some of the money I used was my own, but I also borrowed multiple ...

Alex Shipp Would you trust an Enrolled Agent to do your taxes?
23 July 2016 | 11 replies

There's not a lot of info out there on enrolled agents, but they are just as qualified as CPAs to do taxes. They must pass a 3 part test that is created by by the IRS. I've been thinking about getting my EA certificat...

Jeremy Fields Replacing original 100 year old doors damaged by tenants
2 December 2018 | 12 replies

I have a 5 bedroom home that is about 100 years old and has the original solid wood interior doors. These doors arent perfect, after all, they are old, however still very sturdy. That is until my tenants decided it wo...

Sam Leon TurboTax Schedule E - Days rented at fair rental value
14 April 2014 | 6 replies

Can someone explain how that number is used?

The way it was worded:

Days rented at fair rental value _____ Days of personal use _____

seems to suggest it was intended to distribute between person...

Pichael Miper Holmes Recouping Startup Cost on W2
31 July 2023 | 6 replies

From all that I have read, and using that to base our organizational structure from the very start, I would love to know the possibilities of recouping the start up costs from setting up what my wife and I hope to gro...

Blair Russell New(ish) Member in Las Vegas, et al.
5 January 2016 | 10 replies

Hello I'm Blair.I'm just now signing up, but I've read a lot of bigger pockets materials over the years and perused the site briefly. Last January I quit my job to work full time in real estate investment. I've been b...

Jesse Brown Using Et Al in a Purchase Sale Agreement
3 October 2015 | 4 replies

I am in the process of signing a wholesale deal for a single family house owned by three siblings that live in three different states (Washington, Oregon, and California).

None of them are tech saving so docusign, ...