The right Certified Public Accountant (CPA) can do wonders for your real estate business whether you are renting out one small property or have a large amount of real estate to lease. Their cost is typically marginal to the amount of value that they can present to your business and they add
Choosing The Right Accountant For Your Real Estate Business
Starting and successfully running a real estate business is no easy feat. If anything, being able to keep it up and running in the dynamic real estate arena is a career milestone that calls for complex and robust decisions from the word go. In that respect, it is essential that you have
Deductible Expenses For Real Estate Agents
As yet another tax season rolls around, and people everywhere are scrambling to save as much money as possible by maximizing their deductions. This can be a real headache if you’re in real estate, since it’s a complex line of work with a wide array of different expenses, some of which are
Delaware Statutory Trusts Increasingly Popular as Real Estate Investment Opportunities
There is a number of ways to hold title to real property. Perhaps the most common way is to hold full title – or “fee” simple title – as an individual or married couple. Title to real property can also be held jointly by multiple corporate or individual persons. One increasingly common means to
Combining Sections 121 & 1031 for Optimal Tax Treatment
As we’ve noted before on HTW, Section 1031 of the IRC applies specifically and exclusively to real property used for business or investment purposes. Section 121, on the other hand, applies to primary residences, and can be utilized to eliminate substantial capital gain upon the sale of one’s
Top Areas for Future Home Buyers in the Greater Seattle Region
Though many of our clients are homeowners, quite a few of our clients are currently in the market (or plan to be in the market) for a new home. For this reason, in our present article we’d like to take a moment to highlight some of the hottest areas for real estate purchases in the greater Seattle
Investment Property & the Personal Residence Exclusion
Contrary to what many may suppose, the initial purpose underlying the acquisition of a property does not necessarily bar future invocation of the principal residence exclusion (under IRS section 121). As we've discussed earlier, Section 121 of the Internal Revenue Code allows homeowners to exclude
The Basics of Tenancy-in-Common Ownership Arrangements
Many of our clients are real estate owners and so in this installment of HTW we thought it beneficial to introduce the concept of tenancy-in-common ownership arrangements. A tenancy-in-common (TIC) is a form of joint ownership which involves multiple owners who share an undivided fractional interest