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...
Justin Johnson
No Money Down Question
Hello and thanks for reading this. I'm a complete noob to increasing and am still currently in initial learning phase while saving up my capital for my first investment property (I will have met that savings goal on ...
William C.
Do you low ball, or make sure you secure the deal?
This is in terms of buy and hold, or BRRRR....But when submitting an offer on a property that is priced well, let say exactly what it’s worth, $100k. You run all your numbers, conservatively, and at $100k, plus renov...
Christopher Dunson
HML Offered me a $1 MILLION DOLLAR CREDIT LINE.
Thank you ahead of time for reading as I am excited, but at the same time feel I need to have a solid plan and everything organized ahead of time.As someone who is newer to real estate, but with high goals and expecta...
Sol Naim
Zestimate dropped dramatically after rental purchase
Hey BP team. Have a question for you guys. I just recently closed on a rental property in LA where the zestimate was 660K (it sold for 640K last year in June) I managed to get the purchase price of 516K which I'm exci...
Thom H.
401k vs Rental Property...should he cash in the 401k???
A friend at my "day job" asked me a question this week regarding cashing in his 401k to fund purchasing more rental properties, when he learned that I was in the rental property business. He's a mid-forties corporate...
Jack Seiden
D.C. prices down 25% from peak!
I was looking through some local mls data and D.C. proper is down 25% from the peak’s in June (725k vs 545k), Montgomery county is down 17% (620k vs 515k) not a shock to me, but still crazy to actually see in the data.
Francis A.
Despite their high taxes, the wealthy keep moving to California
There has been a lot of talk of people moving out of California. To this effect, the Los Angeles Times has an article that goes by the subject "High taxes be damned, the rich keep moving to California". Has anyone rea...
Matt R.
Where do Landlords make the most money?
I have seen a steady stream of Southern Cal folks and others from across the country asking where they should invest. Rather than respond to each post I am taking the lazy way out:) Here is some more SFH REI research ...
Filipe Pereira
The End of Fake ESAs / Service Animals?
What's your worst ESA / service animal story? Hopefully that's well behind you...I've long said that it will take big money lobbyists (likely from the air travel industry) to push into motion some type of regulation o...