Mike Irwin
Short term rental
If I buy a property for short term rental and do a cost segregation study to speed up depreciation, can I later decide to convert to a primary residence? Is there time limits to convert, I understand that there may be...
James York
Bonus depreciation help
Can someone help me understand the future of bonus depreciation? As I understand it, I can take 100% of 5 and 15 depreciation this year. This phases out starting next year. Does that mean next year I can take 80% of t...
Andrew S.
Tax Plan for SFH Flip
For context: I have successfully "flipped" three houses in the past 7-8 years, all of which were my primary residence. I'm about to receive the contract on a SFH in NY state (buying outright with cash) with the plan t...
Ezra Nugroho
Dealing with paper losses
With my rentals, I generate paper losses from operating expenses, repairs and depreciation. However, because of having 2 incomes in the household, my wife and I got phased out, and I cannot claim those losses against ...
Dillon Black
Tax Deductions, depreciation on House Hack?
Hello everybody, so I spent some time trying to figure this out, but I'm hopelessly lost. What are the tax benefits or disadvantages of house hacking and living in one unit of a duplex, as opposed to renting both unit...
Nathan Vaughan
Retirement Planning for Real Estate Investors
Looking for retirement planning options. Employer 401k is not an option. My income is W2 income and the passive income from investing via rentals owned in a one member LLC with no employees. Roth IRA is not an option....
Andrew S.
House hack/ live in flip tax optimization
Good morning BP,I'm currently living in a house hack duplex/ live in flip. I closed on the property 125k in August, put 10k to make my side 90% complete, then put 7k in the other half. I had my old roommates move in t...
Eric Dubrule
Tax credit for lead abatement
In August of 2013 I paid $7,680 for lead abatement. I am eligible for $4,500 lead tax credit through the state of Massachusetts. My question is, do I still claim the 7,680 as a deductible repair expense or do I ha...
Marian Huish
Are You in Compliance with DC's New Short-Term Rental Laws?
Overall, short-term rentals must be operated by the owner of the unit, and each owner-host must acquire a short-term rental license from DCRA. Hosts with these licenses can admit guests for an unlimited number of nigh...
Michael Plaks
Tax reform Q&A Thread 1 - Pass-through and 20% deduction
Colleagues and friends, The original GOP reform thread started by @Brandon Hall is well over 200 posts by now. This is one of the follow-up threads specifically for discussion of pass-through entities (Sch C / Sch E s...