Analyzing multifamily real estate investments is challenging because such analysis requires both complicated tax and financial calculations. To show clients and others how this analysis is supposed to work, our firm created a simple starter Excel workbook. You can download the multifamily real … [Read more...] about Analyzing Multifamily Real Estate Investments
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Real Estate Tax Traps: The Three Biggest Mistakes
New and potential real estate investors, unfortunately, often fall into one or more serious tax traps. Accordingly, the discussion that follows identifies these traps, or mistakes, and then ways to side-step the trouble. Some of the material covered in the paragraphs that follow is a little, … [Read more...] about Real Estate Tax Traps: The Three Biggest Mistakes
Rental Property Tax Benefits
Real estate investors typically see three types of rental property tax benefits: Benefit # 1: Depreciation Tax Deductions Federal and state income tax accounting rules allow investors to depreciate real estate improvements (such as the building) over either 27.5 years (in the case of residential … [Read more...] about Rental Property Tax Benefits
How to Compare Rental Property Investments
Analyzing real estate investments is important. By doing so, you’re likely both to make smarter investments—and to avoid costly mistakes. Unfortunately, most individual real estate investors have no idea of where to even begin. That’s too bad. In many cases, the analysis isn’t difficult. Step 1: … [Read more...] about How to Compare Rental Property Investments
Treating Real Estate Profits as Capital Gains
When an individual investor sells a real estate investment for profit, he or she is often concerned about whether the profit is capital gain or ordinary income. And for good reason… Basic Rules of Real Estate Profit Taxation A capital gain is often taxed at 15% (though sometimes higher if a … [Read more...] about Treating Real Estate Profits as Capital Gains
Tracking Rental Property with Quicken
No matter which version of the software you use, Quicken provides a handy format for tracking real estate investments such as income property. By using the Quicken software for this recordkeeping, you can prepare summaries of income and expenses by property for monitoring your individual real … [Read more...] about Tracking Rental Property with Quicken