Jerry Rodgers
Pay Now or 1031 tax exchange?
Hello Everyone. I have been blessed over this last year in my rehab business now I need some tax advise from others on BP so that we don't bless the tax man so much :) I have been rehabbing homes since last summe...
Shafi Noss
Tax Questions: What are the Tax Benefits for Passive Investors?
Hi everyone, I've been trying to puzzle through the tax situation for passive investors and thought I'd ask you all for help.
It seems like the main incentives are depreciation and capital gains. An LP using depreci...
Joe Splitrock
Apartment vacancy rates up in my market - what are you seeing?
I just read an article that vacancy rates for apartments have doubled over last year to almost 9% in my city, Sioux Falls, SD. We had $72M worth of new apartments built in 2015 in a city under 200,000 people! I am not...
Max Householder
St. Louis County Could Force Eviction of Tenants Under New Bill
I was wondering if anyone on here had heard about this controversial new bill that is going to be voted on for St. Louis County? The first couple of paragraphs of this article cover the broad strokes before offering m...
Jason Muth
The Darker Side of Airbnb - Good Article
Bloomberg Business just published this piece on Airbnb and their Crisis Management Department."Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away"It's long, but worth the read if you're a STR host - htt...
Chris Moriarty
Cold Calling is Dead? Really?
Upon joining up with Bigger Pockets, I logged on to see an advertisement that said "cold calling is dead" that was advertising a book. While it looks attractive, the data simply doesn't support this proposal. In a...
Sylvia B.
How will this affect rental rates in my town?
I found this notice in this week's newspaper:
It goes on to explain various parts of the new plan, but then at the end it has this:
Note the part I underlined in red. Current rent for a 3B...
Preston Morrison
ALERT for Investors Who Use Financing!
One of my lender friends sent me an article today discussing Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's conservator, FHFA, is going to be cutting back drastically on loans that are secured by second homes and investment propertie...
Ta’Shawn Collins
Tips and information on BRRRR using hard money lenders
Want to get into fixing and flipping houses in my market. Any tips or articles that I could read that would help educate myself.
Joshua Herald
Its time to move out... From the In Law's spare room! Hard Money?
My wife and I sold our first home over a year ago. It was a 5 year rennovation that eventually eliminated every debt we had. I actually wrote an article about this journey titled. "My first flip paid off my student lo...