Rich Hupper
real estate development tax credits and how they work
I am looking a 16000 SF building in a historic part of town. I am aware of the state and federal government offering developers tax credits for rehabilitation and preservation of certain buildings. This is one of thos...
Joe Carnicelli
Property Tax Adjustments
Hi. I know someone who purchased a house and the property tax went up $500 a month over 3 years. Looking into this, I saw that they bought the house at $150k and the previous sale history was $99k. Over 3 years the lo...
Bryan L.
Dodd-Frank amended to apply to all rental properties
An executive order written by the President today will now enforce the provisions of Dodd-Frank on rental properties as well as owner-financed properties. All landlords will have to become licensed and will have t...
Casey Mack
Republicans think they won?
I love how all it takes is two governor races to make Republicans think they have a fighting chance. Keep the hope alive!
Annette Hibbler
Are the rich the "greedy" ones?
I'm reading a book by Robert Kyosaki entitled, "Why A Students Work For C Students and B Students Work For the Government". I agree with most of his views of our public school system, the dangers of an entitlement so...
Richard Warren
Does Everyone Understand What Is Going On Here??
We may be witnessing the largest financial collapse in centuries. Take a step back and look at what is happening:
ï‚· Subprime meltdown
ï‚· Housing bubble
ï‚· Foreclosure crisis
ï‚· Bear Stearns collapse
ï‚· Country...
Ben Leybovich
Neighbor vs. Neighbor
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts about the recent interview by Meredith Whitney, about the only Wall Street analysts worth anything, on CNBC.
She talked about Detroit bankruptcy saying more is coming. She succes...
David Kieta
The Doom Loop in Chicago
"A “doom loop” therefore looms for Chicago and many other cities: Commercial leases don’t get renewed, leading to slashed commercial property tax valuations, forcing a higher tax burden on homes, reducing the value of...
Shana Gray
Obama can't do what we can do.
1,200,000 foreclosures?
30,000 investors here at BP?
that averages about 40 houses each.
I am sure there are loads of investors not here.
so if 10% of investors are here, that's 4 houses each.
Scott Trench
Should Early Retirees Take Advantage of Gov't Benefits?
So I've got a controversial topic to throw out to the BP community. On many recent posts I've seen online, I see members of the Financial Independence Community (no BiggerPockets members that I've seen thus far) talk ...