So I have had many properties that I had put the typical 20% or 30% down on a 30 Year loan and had a Fixed payment with the bank.  When I had extra money or a large commission I would always put large amounts to the p...

I live in NY, I own a home that I live in, and it has a decent size mortgage as you can imagine. I was looking out of state for rental properties, in a particular area, looking to make contacts to explore the feas...

I am writing about this on BP because I just found out about it and there are bound to be some tax wizards on here that know about about the game theory needed to navigate our ridiculous tax code.  I stumbled upon thi...

Hi everyone, 
I was blessed to have the opportunity to purchase a family property (3-family in Boston) with lots of equity. I'm tapping into the equity in order to continue investing in real estate. I'm a single mom,...

So say you've been depreciating a property for 10 years.   Year 11 rolls around and you completely replace the roof.  Does that just increase the remaining depreciable balance (basis) for 17.5 years?  Or do you deprec...

So, a while back I posted a question about having multiple investors all making small investments to my LLC. That sounds like it's really hard to set up because of the SEC rules.

I have a different idea I wanted to ...

Ive been trying to confirm the tax consequence of selling my rental unit and am so far astounded at the negative tax implications ive found.  I purchased this unit in 2001 for $400k and converted it to a rental in 200...

Many years ago, decades actually, people with high debt loads, like us real estate investors, could not achieve high credit scores. The algorithm would limit scores based on arbitrary absolute numbers, like $2,000,000...

Hello,
I am brand new to investing. My husband and I bought our first house when we were 22; using my parents as co-signers.
Now, we are 25 and we have rented our 4 bedroom house and moved back with his parents to sa...

Can a realtor include part of his commission to our deal in escrow?

I like to look at houses but REALTORS are so '' busy'' to show them and after 2nd house they show you its too much trouble for them.

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