Patrick Shep
End of year tax strategies?
What are some good end of year tax deduction strategies (outside of increasing your 401lk contributions). I've read a lot of people will buy a property as an STR, put it into service then do a cost seg. I'm looking to...
Daniel Amsalem
House Hack in Alexandria as Airbnb MTR
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Alexandria.
Purchase price: $520,000
Cash invested: $225,000
Built in 1960, our semi-detached home was a 3/1.5 with 988sqft. Ca...
Max James
Creative Way to Increase Your Cash Flow
I'm restructuring some of my leases to increase cash flow on a per building basis. For example, I am going to provide my tenants 2 window AC units, free parking, free storage, and some other amenities that they can i...
Tom Conant
Is it worth the cost to make a 2/1 into a 2/2?
My wife and I just moved into a house on a 1/2 acre lot in Fresno with large detached 3 car garage with a kitchen and bathroom on the back of the property. My goal is to convert it to an 1100 sqft second house (which...
Cheryl C.
Predictions on the next RE "Cycle"?
Having been around since the very early 80's, I've seen a few real estate cycles. I'll freely admit that I did not foresee the extent of the recent collapse. I saw a decline/correction coming, beginning in 2003 - wh...
Roland Brown
Using Equity in my Home
I am new and looking for ways to ear mark capital for InvestingI have roughly $100K in home equity. Are there specific ways I can go about using that equity to start investing? Would this be a generic refinance, a h...
Aya Inoue
Anything special to consider with condos?
Hi everyone! I have been doing some research and am looking to get into the real estate investment world. I think I'd like to start with owning a rental to generate some cash flow. And I'm not looking really to gener...
Account Closed
Market cycle
Where are we currently in the multi family market cycle? Any signs of prices going down any time soon?
Cameron Peters
Neighborhood Grade Criteria
Can anyone point me toward a good article, blog, resource explaining different property and neighborhood ratings. For example a B+ neighborhood versus a C neighborhood. What are the differences between the two? I have...
Ryder Meehan
When to sell a multi-family rental or hold on?
Hello BPers!!!I pose a conundrum to the forums. At what point to I sell off my highly appreciated, low cash flowing multi-family that I just bought 6 months ago? This is on Munger in Dallas, TX (lower greenville are...