Looking at a mixed use office building in the older part of a nice, more affluent downtown area, I'm curious to know what one may be looking at in terms of an increase in property taxes. As I understand, property taxe...

If you had a choice to use money from a Roth SDIRA or money from a taxable account, what would you use? Do the tax benefits of using taxable money out way the advantages of tax free income with a Roth SDIRA?

I heard some people have their own companies (LLC) for their rental properties. Is it necesary to do so? Is there any tax or other benefits by having a company? I just began to learn real estate investment and becomin...

So i'm researching properties to buy at the county foreclosure auction.  I came upon one that looked promising (like 40k difference in lender's max bid and value) but when I searched the title I found like 35k in fede...

I owned a land overseas which I recently sold. The land was a gift from my father. I do not owe any income taxes in the country because I owned it for many years. It used to be my home country where I was born. Howeve...

HiI bought two properties this year and sold them for a profit. It is my understanding the profit from those flips will be treated as active income and subject to self employment tax. However I didn't even lift a fing...

Good Day BP Fam,So this is my first post, so I'll give some background. I'm active duty military, transitioning out to civilian life later this year. I'm in the final part of obtaining my agent license, about to sched...

I currently have a SDIRA with a check book LLC.  I have a couple of houses and mutual funds.  I have just learned that I may or may not have overstepped my arms length vs personal involvement by occasionally providing...

So I purchased one house at the end of Feb and it's still not finished being rehabbed, but about 2 weeks after that I bought another house (house #2).  We finished it up and after a week on the market we accepted an o...

Hey everybody- Just got introduced to BP and have already learned a lot just from following some of your posts, thanks!I have recently retired from LAFD and would like to use my 457 deferred comp retirement funds to i...