by Jim Ingersoll | Oct 1, 2012 | Finding Buyers, Motivated Sellers, Real Estate Investor Resources
Real estate investors should always focus on effective marketing. Marketing to find motivated sellers, marketing to find great tenants, marketing to build a wholesale buyers list, marketing for private lenders, and marketing to sell houses. Your marketing effort needs...
by Diane Kennedy, CPA | Sep 26, 2012 | Real Estate Tax Strategies
In this article, we’re going to talk about some details of one of the real estate professional deduction requirements. The issue is something called the material participation test. According to the material participation rules, you must spend 500 hours or more in...
by Diane Kennedy, CPA | Sep 25, 2012 | Real Estate Tax Strategies
One of the hottest real estate tax strategies is the Real Estate Professional. The IRS is on to this one, though, so make sure you follow the rules. If your income is over $150,000, you can not take advantage of your real estate passive losses unless you are a...
by J.P. Vaughan | Sep 22, 2012 | Real Estate Investing News
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™ Welcome to our weekly edition of Hot Real Estate Investment News. New this week: Home builders are more confident than they have been in six years. August existing home sales rose 7.8 percent. Home inventory dipped 29.7...
by Josh Caldwell | Sep 18, 2012 | Miscellaneous
I’ve seen a lot of novice real estate investors fail. Most of them fail to get started and never get out of the gate because they allow fear to stop them from trying. This is perfectly normal. But now is the time to stop worrying and get out there. Real estate...