Real Estate
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We run a few short-term rentals, and like everyone who does, we hand a cut of every guest’s payment to the booking sites. The way to stop doing that is to earn direct bookings, and to earn direct bookings you need a …
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Five years of essays on this site have grown up and become a book. It is called Our Adventures in Real Estate — What We Learned, and it is now on Amazon. Buy it on Amazon → What it is It is the writing from this site, …
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Here’s an overview of my favorite real estate reference manuals. These are the books which, in my opinion, form the smallest finite cover of the topics falling under the general umbrella of real estate investing. I’m …
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I’ve re-typed this piece of advice about a dozen or so times in the past few weeks. Might as well then write it up here, to short-circuit the future re-typing. Do not ask a CPA for tax law advice. Do not listen to a CPA …
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Whether real estate courses, workshops, clubs etc are worth the trouble appears as a question every once in a while. Have you heard about such-and-such an influencer? What do you think about the course by so-and-so? I …
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I read somewhere a possibly important factoid about failed 1031 exchanges: If your 1031 exchange fails, you will not see your money until day 181 from the close of the relinquished property. If you have money left over, …
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It is allowed to transfer title into an LLC on a property with a conforming loan* *) under some conditions Someone surely needs to read this. Despite the common myth, transfers of property titles into an LLC, while the …
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Inventory of things that happened over the holidays 1x unit flooded: ice maker supply hose got cut because of friction with a vibrating AC, then flooded the unit. $2,200 to repair and clean up. 1x water in unit (again, …
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Filip Filmar See LinkedIn too. I spend quite a bit of time outside my “regular” work hours thinking about, discussing—and practicing—real estate. In discussion, I sometimes get questions that I have an opinion on. Some …
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Residential transactions (1 to 4 units) are usually written on form contracts, which consist of boilerplate text and fields to fill out. Here’s a handy form that I started using to make sure that all relevant offer …
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Buyer beware of serious undisclosed issues at 4113 Holiday Dr, Panama City Beach, FL This is a notice to all to heed the undisclosed issues with 4113 Holiday Dr, in Panama City Beach FL. The property has serious issues …
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After what turned out to be an acquisition where I got more difficulties than I bargained for, I finally decided to write up my real estate due diligence checklist. I hope it will be useful to us in the future, as well …
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I asked Google’s Bard to give me some excuses for not investing in real estate. Here are the answers. The point of this exercise was to show that if your plan is to wait with investing in real estate, you could always …
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Way back when at the beginning of the pandemic, I gave a presentation called “Real Estate for Absolute Beginners” for colleagues at work. You can now access the slides to the presentation here.