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Hi all, I recently posted about buying a rental in Tampa and got a lot of good replies. Since then I figured out since I meet the income threshold I could consider it a "second home" vs. rental investment so I could p...
My husband and I are looking to buy an investment property in Florida (open to other suggestions) but short term rentals are so hard to come by with HOA’s. I saw a website for mid term rentals with fully furnished pla...
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Hi There New Bigger Pockets Friends,My wife and I relocated from Washington, DC to San Francisco a little over a year ago. We sold our condo in DC thinking that we would buy immediately in SF. We then got here, the pr...
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Hey BP Family, Just trying to gauge what other Rehabbers specifically in the Dallas area are generally paying per sqft for paint and patch? I understand its very dependent on your contractors and subcontractors and al...
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I want to know who uses loan doc software to create their NOTES and disclosures when they lend their own money? Who do you use and why? I usually have the title company create the NOTE for me with their generic prog...
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Would the capital gains from selling an investment property held in a particular LLC be eligible for a 1031 exchange fund if it is applied to a down payment on a commercial development owned by same LLC that broke ...
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Now using the de minimis/routine maintenance safe harbors instead of bonus depreciation for appliances, carpet and the like. I don't understand why my taxes go up a few bucks when I change move an item (a kitchen appl...
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and new to real estate house flipping. My friends and I (one is an broker, another is an engineer/construction) are starting a real estate investment company. We want to set up a fun...
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I am at an impasse in my legal setup. My original plan was to buy 3 properties and then set up an LLC. I am now thinking more longer term. I considered a Series LLC, and I also considered just sticking with umbrella...
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I was reading my REI book and pondering things and I realized that in general, single-family homes are for investors who do things like flipping, rehabbing, and other strategies that depend price appreciation. For buy...