Brandon S.
Large Sum of Money; Real Estate Trends; Sit-out or Jump-in?
Hey there - first discussion post here. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Recently came into a large chunk of money from family estate -- approx. 800K liquid and ready for investing. Only my wife knows of these fu...
Tim Smith
How do high wage earners benefit from real estate related tax deductions?
Longtime lurker, first post. Thanks to the BiggerPockets community for all the invaluable advice -- it's helped me personally and professionally for many years.
Here's my question: This year my wages at my non-real...
Dmitriy Fomichenko
Self-Directed Solo 401k for Real Estate Investors – Q&A
Over the years I’ve seen many questions here on BiggerPockets forum related to various aspects of using self-directed Solo 401k real estate investing. But the challenge is that those questions are spread out across pr...
James Likis
Tradeoffs: amending taxes with cost segregation & bonus depreciation
When filing our 2022 taxes, our CPA did not mention or encourage us to do a cost segregation study to capture bonus depreciation on the two properties my wife and I acquired in 2022. Our goal is to invest aggressively...
Hen Ley
Financing through rental income and nothing else?
Looking to finance a purchase- it will either be a flip or rental. Currently don't have any income and my tax returns don't offer anything that would help qualify. Having a hard time finding a lender that will lend ...
Tom Jimenez
401k withdraw?
Hello bp subscribers. My wife and I are brand new to the real estate investing world, and are looking @ all of our options for financing out first property, and one of them is possibly taking from my employee based 40...
Wesley Mullen
Reducing 401k contributions
As soon as I started my Corporate job, I was told like many others to max out my 401k contributions to take advantage of my Employer match (100% first 3%, 50% next 2%). So I've been contributing 5% the last 5 years. B...
David C.
How to fund a solo 401k with rental properties
I have been watching several of Mark Kohler's videos on Youtube regarding tax strategies and planning, and came across something that made me scratch my head. In his diagrams, he considered all rental properties as p...
Silvia B.
New deck boards and railings: Depreciation or Repair?
This Summer we personally replaced the deck boards and railings on one of the decks. The structure ( posts, joists, etc) were ok but the old deck boards were bad and it was time to replace them. It cost us about $1500...
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Wrap-around Mortgages
Say, for example, that Joe (who has bad credit) wants to buy a property, but needs Mike (who has great credit) to get the loan.
Can Mike get a loan from a lender, and pass it through to Joe?