Adoney Reid
Purchase 1st Investment Property 2024
Hello BP Family ! I am looking to purchase my first Investment property Q2 of 2024.
A little about my self, I migrated in 2021 from Jamaica to beautiful San Diego. I live with my wife In downtown San Diego raising 3...
Lisa Mauritis
Do Canadian's who invest in the US pay double taxes?
Hi All,My name is Lisa and I am just starting to invest in the US market for profit.I live in Canada for 6 months and florida for 6 months and have been doing this for the last 4 years. I have 1 property in florida f...
Account Closed
Buying a home in Berkeley, CA as a Canadian student?
Hi all,
I'm applying to graduate school in the San Francisco Bay Area and I'm thinking of buying a house in Berkeley where my boyfriend and I could live and where we could rent out the 2 or 3 other bedrooms...
Brandon Komp
using IRA to buy real estate
Hello BP members!I've listened, read and debated a lot of material about using retirements funds in a self-directed IRA to invest in real estate. The rules seem really cumbersome and complicated, and since I'm still f...
Kelly Nolan
Temporary negative cash flow for long-term home? Please Advise!
Would it make sense to buy a home, rent for 1-2 years (negative cash flow), with the intention of making it our primary residence thereafter? Please advice. Is there anything I need to think about here?We found a home...
Terry Hale
Recession Proof Commercial Real Estate
Hello, hope everyone is staying safe. This is the time to invest in storage facilities, do you agree?
Carlos Ptriawan
Don't become passive investors
If there's one thing I learnt from the massive crash of CRE in 2023(and 2024) is that "Do not become passive investors". WHen you are passive investor, you become the dumb money , your money is being misused or misman...
Eric Lunsford
Should I Take A Sabbatical?
This post is purely opinion based although I suppose some may have experience with this. I work for a company that is employee owned and have stock that I can't touch until I leave. If I were to leave at the end of th...
Dina Harleth
Calculating capital gains on sale of gifted house?
Hi everyone,
I'm contemplating selling a house that was gifted to me by my father while he was still alive. I'm trying to calculate what I'd net from the sale of the property (to make a comparison between sel...
Michael Shea
DTI: Rent by room income on schdule E
I'm contemplating renting out an investment property(non-primary residence) on a room-by-room basis with separate longer-term leases for each bedroom. I'm curious if the income from these rentals, listed on Schedule E...