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I Just Got a Rental, What Do I Do?
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- Real Estate and Rental Properties as a Business
- Basic Business Entities For Real Estate Investment
- Sole Proprietorship
- Single-Member Limited Liability Company (SMLLC)
- Multi-Member Limited Liability Company (MMLLC)
- Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) and General Partnerships (GP)
- Rental Property In Partnership Entities
- C Corporations
- Rental Property In C Corporations
- S Corporations
- Pass-Through Versus Disregarded Entity Taxation
- Your Spouse As A Business Partner (Happy Happy Joy Joy)
- Owning A Rental Property With Others
- Real Estate Investing With Family Partners
- Real Estate Holding Company and Operating Company
- Pure LLC Holding Company
- Economic versus Equity Interests
- Structuring Real Estate Deals with Angel Investors
- Loans or Capital Injections
- LLC Benefits For Rental Properties
- Multi-Entity Rental Property Tiered Structure
- Using a Trust In Your Real Estate Holding Company
- Operating Agreements For Real Estate Partnerships
- Real Estate Succession Planning
- Fallacy Of A Nevada LLC (or Delaware, or Wyoming, or wherever!)
- Liability Protection Fallacy Of An LLC
- Charging Orders
- Using A Self-Directed IRA Or 401k To Buy A Rental Property
- Trapped Rental Assets In An S Corporation
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- Three Types of Income
- Passive Activity Loss Limits
- Passive Income Generators (PIG)
- Your Small Business As A Passive Income Activity
- Material Participation Rules
- What Time Counts For Material Participation
- Real Estate Professional Status (REPS)
- Short-Term Rental (STR) Loophole
- Vacation Home Rules
- State Problems With Your Rental Property
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- Chapter Introduction
- Five Basics to Warm Up To
- Value of a Rental Property Tax Deduction
- Rental Property Tax Deductions Themes
- Section 199A Rental Property Deduction
- Common Rental Property Tax Deductions
- Allocation of General Rental Expenses
- Rental Property Travel Deductions
- Rental Property Meals
- Mortgage Interest Tracing
- Acquisition Costs (revisited)
- Rental Property Repairs Safe Harbor (revisited)
- Repairs Versus Improvements (revisited)
- Rental Property Depreciation (revisited)
- Automobile Deductions with Rentals
- Automobile Decision Tree
- Home Office Deduction
- Real Estate Education Expenses
- 185 Rental Property Tax Deductions You Cannot Take
- Deductions the IRS Cannot Stand
- Cohan Rule For Rental Property Owners
- Reducing Taxes
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- Rental Property Repairs Safe Harbors
- Improvement Versus Repairs
- Rental Property Renovations (Rehab)
- Accelerated Depreciation and Section 179 Deduction
- Allowed Versus Allowable Depreciation
- Qualified Improvement Property (QIP)
- Partial Asset Disposition (PAD)
- 1031 Like-Kind Exchange
- Selling Your Rental Property
- Buying Out Your Real Estate Partner
- Taking The Rental Out of Service
- Changing Depreciation Between 27.5 and 39.0 Years
Sole Proprietorship
By Jason Watson, CPA
Posted Saturday, August 3, 2024
Having said all this, in some cases a sole proprietorship is preferred. For example, in California, there is an $800 annual franchise tax. Also, be wary of annual Secretary of State filing fees. Nevada is $350. Massachusetts is massive at $500. These are annual fees for just having an LLC. The “pleasure to have an LLC in our state” fee, if you will. Other states vary between $100 to $250, and a few remain free after the initial filing fee like Texas.
As such the question becomes, how much protection or benefits am I receiving for the additional costs of having an LLC? The answer is situational of course, and WCG CPAs & Advisors can help (we mentioned the shameless self-promotion bit earlier, right?).
I Just Got A Rental, What Do I Do? 2024-2025 Edition
This KB article is an excerpt from our 320+ page book (some picture pages, but no scatch and sniff) which was released September 30, 2024, and is available in paperback from Amazon, as an eBook for Kindle and as a PDF from ClickBank. We used to publish with iTunes and Nook, but keeping up with two different formats was brutal. You can cruise through these KB articles online, click on the fancy buttons below or visit our webpage which provides more information.
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