Brian Hosier
What's a Good Cash-on-Cash Return?
I know many investors are glad to get an 8% CoC return on their properties because it's still better than most other investments and it's a whole lot better than anything you can get from a bank or savings account.
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Vladimir Amazan
Residential real estate
Hello fellow investors, anyone in the community specialize in house hacking small multi family properties?I am going to house hack a triplex or a quadruplex in Orlando, fl? Possibly San Antonio, TX as well, I don’t mi...
Bryan Hancock
The JOBS Act - How To Verify Investors Are Accredited
I have been studying Regulation A private placements for a few days since they seem to be recommended by folks knowledgeable with the securities law changes since The JOBS Act passed. Apparently if you go through ...
Matt Moldenhauer
Rental Property Receipts, Tracking Expenses & CPA's
I'm curious to know how other people handle their receipts with their CPA. This past season was the first time we claimed our first rental property on our taxes. We only had a few receipts to turn in to our CPA, so i ...
Rusty Scott
Tax Treatment of Agent Commission on Own Purchases
For those licensed agents out there....when you buy a property for yourself, either personal residence or investment property, you typically receive the buyers agent commission.Is this considered taxable income? Or is...
Julie Kern
First Deal: SFR or Student Rental?? - Brainstorming
We have a contract on our first deal as of today (see http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/1548... for details).Our original plan was to rent this out as a SFR. But over the last 24 hours, I started wonderin...
Scott Trench
Why do you care about Financial Independence?
I have to admit that I was drawn to BiggerPockets in a somewhat roundabout way. You see, I'm not so much interested in Real Estate as a business that I want to get into, but as a means to an end. That end of course ...
Jake Walroth
Getting my Unit ready for Airbnb
Hey guys, so I just closed on my first duplex... I'll be living in one of the units.... however, I travel Mon-Thurs each week and going to really try this Airbnb thing out. The house is very close to University of Cin...
Evan Koehler
What to do Right Now?
Hi all, I'm 23 years old and 7 months into my first job out of college in the Fox Valley, Wisconsin area. Still have student loans to pay off (looking at about 2 years to do that) and then would most likely want to b...
Jay C.
You better read this if you have rentals
There is a movement sweeping across the nation and it seems to be growing steam. Its the don't pay rent even if you have the funds to. I really don't like what I am reading. Myself I own multiple properties and had pl...