28 September 2019 | 9 replies
Please consult with licensed counsel."
18 October 2019 | 11 replies
Too little and it has no effect, too much and it has the opposite effect.
25 November 2019 | 7 replies
A lot of money has been chasing "safe" returns over the past 7-10 years and large real estate syndicators have sold the promise of college rentals effectively to pool significant amount of capital.
17 December 2019 | 7 replies
Orlando passed some laws/ordinances regarding STR and limiting the ability of folks to do so without registering with the state something to the effect of $275.
31 December 2019 | 38 replies
SEO’s effectiveness, when done right, is proof that times are changing.
6 December 2019 | 4 replies
If people could just make up that they intend to rent all rooms out in a single family home, except for "their" spot in the garage, to juice up their "mortgage qualifying" income, we'd be effectively right back at stated income.
12 December 2019 | 8 replies
It will in effect be treated much like the non owner occupied residential loan, with state regulation only.Owner occupied residential mortgage notes are subject to both the SAFE Act, and regulations by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
1 November 2019 | 5 replies
The repayment terms for a 401k participant loan are equal monthly/quarterly payments of principal and interest (typically prime plus 1%) over a 5 year term (longer if used to acquire your principal residence).Please note that if you take a full $50,000 and then pay back the loan, you can't take another $50,000 until 12 months after the first loan was fully paid back.Per the loan offset rules that went into effect with the 2018 Tax and Job Act: if you leave your job and the loan is current at the time you leave your job but then the loan goes into default because you left your job, you will have until your tax return deadline (including any timely filed extension) to make the loan current by depositing the outstanding balance into an IRA (and thereby avoid the taxes and penalties that would otherwise apply).
6 November 2019 | 13 replies
Not exactly an impressive amount per month.On the flip side, if we drop 30K in an index fund that "currently" indicates a 10+% average over a 10 year period of time and put 3k+/- per month in it, by the time 10 years has lapsed we would have a significant amount of funds that are effectively liquid and not tied into an amount of equity that we would have to leverage or sell to gain access to.At this point no decision has been made.
6 November 2019 | 5 replies
The County Seized His Property, Sold It—and Kept the Profits.A state law allows counties to effectively steal homes over unpaid taxes and keep the excess revenue for their own budgets.Eric Boehm | 11.6.2019 7:40 AMAn 83-year-old retired engineer in Michigan underpaid his property taxes by $8.41.