I have been buying commercial real estate for nearly 20 years, and each investment has involved the use of leverage, taking out a bank loan for as much of the purchase price as possible to increase the investors’ cash-on-cash returns. These days it’s harder than it’s...
As my focus shifts more and more to my real estate investing business, I noticed with interest the recent disaster relief rules implemented by the IRS for all taxpayers who live and work in designated counties in the state of California that have been deemed to have...
We’ve all heard about the relationship between risk and reward in business – the higher the reward, the greater the risk that inevitably follows it. Nowhere is this more true than in real estate investing. Well, maybe crypto stocks are still ahead, but in real estate...
Relief from the impact of weather is not something we expect from the Internal Revenue Service; hearing from them is more often than not receiving a disturbing letter in the mail. But sometimes we get surprised. Politicians wanting to defund the IRS for collecting...
You don’t need a professional advisor to tell you that the value of office space has declined in the past couple of years as companies reduce their space need and adapt to the concept of remote work. On the flip side, it doesn’t take much research to be aware that...
I have a “side hustle” when I’m not occupied with running the CFO for Rent business; it’s investing in commercial real estate, along with some of my clients and close friends. It’s the business I’ll pursue more fully when I’m no longer offering consulting services,...
