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What are the general tests for material participation? This question comes up all the time. As tax professionals, we want to get the word out for those considering a real estate professional designation.
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How Do You Define a 'Mom and Pop Investor' ?Before I started investing, I looked down on the hard working 'Mom and Pop Investors' who "only" owned 6 or 8 rental properties. Years later I stand with them and admire the...
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Hello,My name is Christopher (but I go by Topher.) I work for a company that owns, manages and sells commercial real estate all over the country. My role in the company is to determine and execute the most effective s...
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What do you all think of this technique?An experienced investor tipped me off on a killer technique he used to buy a property and wanted to get feedback on this."He just did a personal loan to a person to catch her up...
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Hello. Does anyone have the Robert Woodruff course “Keys to Cashflow”? I aminterested in how the course worked for you? What was your opinion of it? lease respond to Lori.
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I have formed a DBA name after taking Brandon Turners advice (from previous articles.) The advice was not so much to form a DBA name, but to have a business name and just be the "property manager." Thi...
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Like I'm sure many of you have, over the years, I have bought my share of "Guru" books and home study courses. I read every one, got motivated, tried to work their "Step by Step" systems, then got discouraged and qui...
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I posted a little earlier that we are expanding our Property Management division and trying to scale it. Does anybody have a good homeowner property management agreement they use? We have one the State of Florida Re...
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Hi all.I'm 22 and from the UK and currently just bought my first property. I would just like to share my recent investment and how ive been able to pay for it with a new technique ive never heard off or seen. It is a ...
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Besides shopping around for fees etc, what other factors are important to select good property management?
Are most of them able to keep promises they made on rent that they think you could get? Are there occasio...