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Hello everyone, I have a question in what sort of activities that can qualify me as a real estate professional.
I have a few rental properties and my rental income is my only income. I only spend about 2-3 hours p...
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Hello BP members!! Just wanted to start this forum for new and seasoned multi-family investors. Base on your experience, what value adds do you look for when evaluating a multi-family property?For example (try not to...
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Hey all,So, I am hopefully closing on my first rental property at the end of this month. Happens to be my own office (commercial condo in a Medical building), so I've got a pain in the ass tenant :)Anyway, I created ...
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Many people wait until the end of the tax year to start their tax planning. However, there are a lot of benefits to planning and strategizing at the beginning of the tax year instead. Since 2023 has just begun, now is...
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I will soon be flipping homes in a newly created C-Corp. My plan is to pay myself a salary and reduce the Corp's yearly net income to zero. I would like the corporation to pay as many of my personal expenses as poss...
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Hi everyone. Just starting out. Thinking of buying new construction. My question: is it better to pay cash for one or put minimum down payment and finance 2-4 properties? It seems like the income is significantly redu...
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Our newest blog contributor, Ted Karsch, an expert in commercial real estate just posted a great post for anyone interested in learning to value apartment buildings.
Check out:
Determining the Value of an Apartment B...
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Hi All,I currently only have one rental property, an SFR in Texas, that I've had rented for a few years now. When I put the property into service, I began to depreciate the property under the MACRS General Depreciatio...
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I'm very new to Bigger Pockets and my wife and I are interested in eventually getting into real estate as a side gig (for now). We've been researching quite a bit through this site but we also stumbled upon a differe...
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I'm new to real estate investing and own one rental and a primary residence. I recently found out about the separation between passive and active incomes and that there are rules about crossing the line on how you can...