I have a client who would like to do a 1031 exchange: selling a 1.6 MM piece of vacant land and replacing it with a 1.5MM apartment complex (plus another small property). The seller of the apartment complex is in the...

Have you ever found yourself having to pay into the IRS for income taxes on your real estate properties? Before sending in the check, be sure to take a look into an engineered cost segregation study to see if you coul...

I've got a single family home that sits on a large lot. Its big enough that I could build a duplicate of the house next to the original. I would love to use the land and build a duplex since I already own it. How coul...

All of our current rentals are single family homes. We want to branch out to multi-family. There aren't many available for sale or recently sold to do the same kind of comp analysis that we've done for single family h...

Can you please help with General understanding for early lease termination.If Lease says, 1. Tenant must pay early termination fee. equal to 1 month rent.2.Tenant will continue to pay rent and utilities until a re...

Ok, I have a weird situation here and at the get go maybe it sounds like a bad idea.
99 percent of the time I wouldn't mix investments with family/friends but I have this situation I'm trying to deduce if it makes bo...

Hi, BPHow do we deduct a new laptop on the Schedule E form?
As you may know, each property has a separate column where we can deduct the property's expenses like: Mortgage Interest paid, Taxes and Repairs.
Under wh...

Hello everyone, i'm looking into investing near University of Missouri and Rockhurst off Paseo Blvd in zip code 64110.  Does anyone have any experiences with this market or can make an suggestion as to the viability o...

So if I contributed some money to my dad when he bought an investment property - I made the PSA deposit during the transaction. Verbal agreement is I’m part owner of the property, but we’re flexible on semantics as lo...

Hi folks,
What are some alternatives to maximize the LTV ratio after a cash purchase? For instance, if you buy a home for $120,000 in cash, one option is delayed financing, where you can obtain a conventional mortgag...