Animesh Das
Does it make sense to invest in real estate in 2018
Hello,Beginner real estate investor here.I have 2 condos in bay area, 1 in fremont, and 1 in hayward, I bought fremont one in July 2012 and hayward one in Oct 2014.I am considering selling both and consolidating into ...
Benjamin Sol Ignacio
W2 --> 1099 : Real Estate Professional - Tax Status - Does it make sense?
Good Morning!I currently work in Land Development as a W2 employee making $200k+ a year. I had spoken with my previous CPA about possibly becoming a 1099 for my current employer to achieve Real Estate Professional sta...
Ibrahim Hughes
Does it make sense to hire City inspectors for this job?
Hi everyone. I am on the board of a small non-profit and we are about to renovate a newly acquired building for our community center. We're fortunate enough to acquire grant money from the city to get the renovations ...
Jim Banville
Buying metro tampa rental condo/house for 5 yrs make sense?
Ok. I'm new here and have never bought/owned an investment property. We live in Georgia. We will retire in about 5 years. We'd like to retire to west/central florida in a community like Dunedin. The price of housing a...
Jeff Lundeen
I have very cheap rent, does house hacking even make sense?
I'm looking to get started with the elusive first deal. I'm currently paying very little for monthly rent. I'm seeing some advice that house hacking or purchasing a 1-4 unit with an FHA or traditional loan is a smar...
Christine Beeman
Making sense of closed accounts on a credit report: please HELP!
I have an applicant who makes 6.8X the rent. She has a credit score just under 600 and literally $30 bucks of debt (her open account shows no late payments). However, there's a closed auto loan with 20 late payments (...
Henry Bagh
Make it make sense (Trying to SCALE into purchasing SFV Rentals)
Hi all, I have about $1M saved and I am looking to get into buying rentals out of state. I live in Los Angeles. I don't mind doing the dirty work, I don't mind working hard. I just want numbers to make sense. I also p...
Daniel Dietz
Does it ever make sense to go from ROTH to Traditional?
Hello All, I have been having good results with investing in buy-n-hold rentals using my ROTH SDIRA, SOLO401K and regular 'cash' investing. To me they each have their place when looking at goals; a combination of some...
Jack B.
Nearing point where it makes no sense to buy more rentals
I've considered selling some rentals and buying two rentals with the money from each. I did that with one rental earlier this year. But with the market likely having only a few years to go before another correction, t...
Javan Jackson
Does building a Duplex or Triplex to house hack make sense?
Hello,Just looking for advice on if this makes sense. I'm looking to buy an empty lot or old building that needs demolished to build a duplex or triplex to house hack. Based on the price per sqft a builder gave me a d...