Someone is the beneficiary through inheritance of half of a deceased partner's 50% stake in an Llc. The other half went to a sibling who originally was a fifty percent partner and is also the executor of the will. In ...

Among confusing legal concepts, the generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax is at the top of the list. Because of its complexity, many attorneys lump it in with concepts such as the rule against perpetuities—topics tau...

hi,I would like to hear what other property owners/managers think about laminate vs. Hardwood flooring.what I think is that Hardwood flooring has a much much longer lifetime, and it is not that much more expensive  (I...

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I have checked out a SFH in one of the suburbs of Chicago. This is a 3 bedroom and two and half bath house. The house is ten years old and is a short sale. The asking rate is 125000. The rent in this area for this...

Has anyone seen this article? "The Really Big One"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-r... I know the New Yorker is a bit lengthy to read start to finish, so I included some quotes from the article that I...

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 very new to investing for my future. I previously thought that buying my house would propel me in the right direction but now I am realizing I would have much rather purchased a multi-family property with m...

So I had a windfall and can sort of "semi retire" with a part time low stress job. Part of me is considering buying more real estate though. I like the idea of being involved with and affecting the world. But the othe...