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As a real estate investor with rental property holdings, understanding key tax considerations and ensuring eligibility for important deductions directly impacts profits and sustainability. Some of the most significant inclusions and exclusions to be aware of include tax rates applied, losses from rental activities, income and deductions passed through to personal returns, deductibility of expenses, …
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As a residential real estate investor, there are two predominant types of rental properties to consider: single family homes and multifamily apartment buildings. Both offer attractive benefits, but also come with unique characteristics, risks, costs, and returns that must be evaluated based on your investment goals and financial situation. Determining whether single family rentals or …
Single Family Vs. Multifamily Rentals: Which is Better? Read More »
Maintaining high occupancy rates across rental property holdings proves essential to maximizing cash flow, stabilizing value and sustaining long term success. Each period of vacancy represents lost potential income and increasing risks of costs from property damage, deterioration of condition or perceived lesser desirability by future tenants. While some turnover and short-term vacancies remain unavoidable, …
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Conducting regular walk-throughs of rental properties is critical to maintaining quality standards, reducing risks, maximizing value and optimizing key metrics of success. Thorough, comprehensive walk-throughs following a consistent process help ensure issues get identified and addressed early before causing substantial damage, legal trouble or loss of income. Some key steps to an effective walk-through include …
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Determining the optimal asking rent and selecting high quality tenants are two of the most important business decisions impacting key metrics like cash flow, stability, value appreciation and portfolio returns. However, getting these decisions wrong by mispricing units, overlooking important requirements or screening subjective attributes proves costly through premature vacancy, damage, non-payment of rent or …
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Effective management of maintenance issues and costs is essential to maximizing cash flow, minimizing risks and sustaining the value of rental property holdings. Without proper procedures and safeguards in place, the time and money required to respond to various issues can quickly spiral out of control, straining resources and impacting key metrics of performance. Some …
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Analyzing multifamily deals thoroughly before pursuing an acquisition is critical to success. There are several key factors to evaluate closely with every potential multifamily opportunity to determine if numbers will truly work out and if the risks are worth the potential rewards. Strong analysis leads to better deals and minimizes the chance of overpaying or …
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For real estate investors, multifamily apartment buildings frequently prove to be excellent investment opportunities. There are several compelling reasons why multifamily properties tend to appreciate in value well and generate attractive returns. Apartments provide stable long-term income from residential rents, benefit from strong demand in most markets, are relatively affordable compared to other property types, …
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Building a portfolio of rental properties represents the path to financial freedom and wealth creation through income, appreciation and optional cash out for capital needs. Scaling a portfolio requires not just acquiring new properties at increasing numbers but developing the operational infrastructure to manage them competently and cost effectively enough providing desired returns despite increasing …
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As a landlord, closely tracking key metrics provides insight into performance, opportunities for improvement and risks developing into major problems if left unaddressed. Regular review of metrics helps determine what’s working, where sales, operations or management can be enhanced and whether current strategies continue leading towards important business goals or require adjustment. Occupancy rate. The …
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