Daniel F.
My Condo Building is proposing a Rental Cap.. Help!
Hi all,I received news this week that the board at the condo building my family owns two units in is calling to question of if the building should revise the current rental cap rules. These rules are quite lenient, an...
Douglas Wolf
commercial expense ratio
Can anyone give my a good rule of thumb what the expense ratio should be for apt buildings? Thanks
Gaurav Mehta
Building an ADU on LLC owned Property in Hayward
Hi,I am looking to acquire a property in Hayward and want to do this by setting an LLC. I was going through the checklist PDF provided by Hayward city (https://www.hayward-ca.gov/services/permits/accessory-dwelling-un...
Jon Rood
Does the 2% or 50% rule apply to new construction?
I am thinking about building a 6 unit building. Each unit is 3br/2ba and would rent for 850.00. This is a little below market to be conservitive. I can build the project for an all in cost of $385k. This would be a ca...
Joe Taylor
Treatment of Remodel Costs After Leased on New Acquisition
Good morning all... I purchased a residential property for a long term corporate client in November 2017. The client asked for some remodel work to be done and expects to move in on March 1 2018. It's pretty signifi...
David Schach
50% rule seems extremely arbitrary
I am very familiar with this rule of thumb, however it seems so misguided and arbitrary and takes into account almost nothing other than a base rental assumption.Say you've got a 10 unit building and most tenants are ...
Gabriel Daneliuc
Building or buying multifamily homes when market is up.
Hello everybody ! What type of investment do you recommend when market is up and you can not find properties who can follow the 1 % rule ? I am thinking to build rather than buy and like this profits can be higher ....
Joey Stelly
Climate Control Self Storage Development - Design & Cost
Looking into ground up development for single story climate control self storage facilities in my market and looking for some general guidance on design & cost rule of thumbs - any help would be greatly appreciate...
Ben Vandorn
1031 into new construction but already own land
I would like to 1031 out of an investment building that I have owned for several years and exchange into new construction buildings on raw land that I already own (paid cash for land a few months ago and construction ...
Robert Steele
De Minimis Safe Harbor Election (expense rather than depreciate?)
Does anyone know what to make of these new IRS rules that came into effect for 2014? (but I believe are back dated to 2011)It sounds to me like we can start deducting a large number of those repairs we used to have to...