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Is it legal to offer real estate agents a bonus for finding you investment property? Just to give them more incentive to bring you deals?
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I have a great employee, who is a hard worker and very attentive to details and or codes, which makes having him on staff frustrating but good. I feel as he has lost his drive/desire to work on real estate, he is take...
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Bonus depreciation is just a special part of the US tax code.
It allows you to take accelerated depreciation on portions of your property depending on when an asset is put into service.
At the time of this writing, ...
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I own a few vacation rentals. If I wanted to give my cleaners bonuses for five star reviews or Christmas bonuses is that a deductible expense?
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Hey guys!
I read in a tax book that for year 2012 there's so called 50% bonus available. Will you be taking advantage of this?
Thank you!
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Hello Bigger Pockets
community,
Need some
advice/recommendation.
I am about to
undertake two rehab projects - first one would be an Airbnb rental and the
other would have annual residential leases.
Both prope...
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Reviewing our 2018 books.
I am working on breaking out & reviewing our rental expenses.
There does not seem to be a comprehensive list of "bonus depreciation" items for the new tax laws. Different accountants I'...
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I am selling over 100 MF units today to a private equity firm. I’m selling in large part because the management expenses got out of control. I really liked the ladies that worked on my properties and did the books, bu...
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Can someone help me understand the future of bonus depreciation? As I understand it, I can take 100% of 5 and 15 depreciation this year. This phases out starting next year. Does that mean next year I can take 80% of t...
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I’m sure it’s listed somewhere on the Internet, but I’m honestly too lazy to go and do all that digging. Does anyone have a decent guide or list of items and services that can be included as bonus depreciation on a re...