Do THIS When Selling a Property That is Also Your Home Office

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So, if you did use a home office in your home, exclusively for business, and then you don’t want to have to face the capital gains consequences, when you sell, you would need to stop using that home office for business purposes for at least two years. How did they get around? Like, I mean, can they move back in?

What’s kind of the trick there.

Then yes. If you have a, let’s say you live in one home and you have another one that is a rental property and you’re facing a large capital gain. What you’d want to do is move back into that other homes that that was your rental property and live there for two years. And then you avoid the capital gain.

Fun Cheapo Ideas w/ Marilyn Anderson

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Hey, simple, passive cashflow listeners. As you guys know, I am a recovering cheapo. I call this cafe style, which stands for cheap-ass free and easy. C a F E. You guys can read all about my cheapo adventures@simplepassivecashflow.com slash cheapo. If you’ve got any good ideas, let me know there, but today’s podcast.

I have Marilyn Anderson who wrote the book, how to live life like a millionaire when you’re a million short and we’re going to be going over seven pretty cool ideas just to get the wheels turning on. These are going to be more towards staying at home since the the pandemic everyone’s not going out to large gathering still.

What I realized is a lot of our audience out there, you guys are pretty affluent make a lot of pretty good money. But you guys are still let’s just call it. You guys like to go after value. When we have our Hawaii mastermind retreat the other year, I don’t think anybody stayed at the Hilton or the Sheraton, the five star resorts.

Everybody stayed in little boutiques or with relatives. So I think today’s content will be right up the alley for most of the listeners. But yeah. Thanks for jumping on and let me put up your book so everybody can go get it at amazon.com. We’ll put it up at the end, but yeah, let’s first thing first.

Seven free things to enrich your life. When you’re staying at home. The first one here is unclaimed property can tell us a little bit about that. There is so much money just sitting and waiting for people to claim that, and it’s like, Money that people never knew that they had, and there’s billions of dollars just sitting.

And if people vote to missing money, thought, Tom, and just fill in their name and the state in which they live their name may pop up and tell them they have money. The other thing it doesn’t have most of the States are there, but some are not. So if not you can go to the state website for wherever you live and putting unclaimed property.

And you should do it not just for yourself, but for your parents, for your siblings. And you may find that you have a lot of money. I told a friend of mine to do this, and he fought me all the way. He said, Oh no, this can’t be real. It must be a spam. And. Texas steady at somebody. So he filled out the forms and he got a letter from them in a couple months saying we’re sending you a check and they still thought it wasn’t real.

He ended up getting a check for $12,000. Now some people make that $10 and make it a hundred dollars. They make the 150. Alison powers, but the point is if people have money, they don’t know they have. So that’s an assignment. I give everyone that I talk to is to go to missing money.com for the state or any state in which you’ve lived with a lot of people these days move around.

So if you’ve moved from one state to another, do it for every single state you’ve lived in, put in your city in your name and also do it for your parents, do it for your siblings. And I bet you’ll find some money there. Nine out of 10 of your listeners will probably find some money. I know I did this at one time for the state website and I did find a little cash there, so yeah.

And just in the time you’re talking, I checked my stuff and I didn’t have anything but likely, cause I cleared my name out a little while ago, but yeah, next one. I’m going to Harvard or yell for free. How do we do that? Especially, a lot of these things, some things were available even before, but a lot of people didn’t know about it.

But there are actually about 5,000 different courses from Harvard, from Dale, from Princeton, from universities, all over the country where you can take classes for free and it can be from anything from computers to religion, to science, to technology. And there’s three places that I will tell you about now.

One is edX. Dot org. And one is coursera.org, and one is class central.com. And as I said, the classes and everything, and they’re free, or if you want a certification, you can pay a small fee, but it’s an opportunity either to just enrich your life, you enjoy or advanced your career, or even change your career.

So those are a couple of places I recommend for that. Yeah. And then now there’s a lot of paid ones, right? Like masterclass or teachable. Yeah, but people should also take advantage of these free courses too. Yeah. And if you guys haven’t checked out, we have a lot of e-courses at simple passive castle.com/ e-course the treeline cars, the new syndication LP course, and the Romo investor course are all on there.

If anybody or their kids wants to take courses in screenwriting, I teach those as well because I’m a TV and film writer. So I teach classes in screenwriting all over the world. Actually, I’m teaching a class next week in South Africa, glide to a broad rate show for free. I know

we had a past episode where my buddy, Matt, he would invest in like Moulin Rouge and Hamilton, but now it’s like one of the biggest, yeah, it’s definitely the biggest Hamilton is definitely the biggest.

Yeah. He invested in that and made a killing, but now the stuff isn’t going too well, everything in show business has been pretty much on hold. And the thing is I talk about in my book actually, how, when theaters are going full force and you could pay. $200 a ticket or in the case of Hamilton, what you said hundreds to $2,000 a ticket.

And I would tell people how to get tickets for twenty-five dollars, where in the case of Hamilton tens hours. But now that there’s a pandemic, actually people can see. All these Broadway shows for free. And that is first of all, if you go to YouTube we’ve just put in Broadway shows. There’s about a hundred different Broadway shows from rent to Moulin Rouge, which you mentioned to Aladdin to frozen the musical.

If they have kids or Mathil the legally blonde, I actually watched it the other day. And not only is it the full Broadway production. I think if you have the lyrics, so you can sing along with it and families love to do this. So one thing is, as I said, YouTube, they have all these great Broadway shows.

And if you’re watching musicals, you can’t feel bad. The other place you can go to Broadway HD and they have newer shows. And of course, Now, if you want to see Hamilton, you can see it with your whole family, just for signing up for Disney plus for one month, which costs eight $99 and 99 cents. Instead of paying, two to $800 to see it.

And it’s you have a front row seat because everything is right there in front of you on your TV screen. Green and it is a play it’s not redone as a movie. It’s actually the play Hamilton. So I definitely recommend that. So once things open up again how do you get $25 seats at one of these life?

When things open up again, there’s all kinds of ways to get discounted tickets. Of course, one way is if you’re in New York to go to the tickets booth, but. A lot of the shows. Now the Broadway shows have what I call lottery tickets. And for instance, Hamilton has lottery tickets for $10. And if you’re lucky enough, it used to be that you had to go to the theater two hours before and they would take the numbers out of a hat, but then they were getting too many people blocking the streets for Hamilton.

So instead they started doing digital lotteries. So for shows like Hamilton and practically every other Broadway show. And this is not just in New York, but we chose travel to your. City. If it had a lot of Rio, New York, there will be a lot of reef in your city. And if you’re lucky enough to win the digital lottery, you can see Hamilton for $10 and sit in the front row.

So that’s one way is as lottery, then there’s rush seats. Then there’s a thing called pay. What you can, a lot of theaters will have a night during the week where they have a pay, what you pad and you can pay. If tickets are normally $60, you can pay. $10. You can pay $5. You could pay $1 and it’s a pay what you can night.

So I have all of those different kinds of things listed. Also of course, people, sometimes people like to usher. If you have kids for instance, and they’re in college or something, not only ushering get them into all the shows for free, but they’ll get to meet the people who are in the shows and you’re doing them.

And if they’re interested in a show, but his career, that’s another way. By the way you mentioned that the guy who invested in Hamilton made a lot of money. If you remember the movie Blair witch project, if you had invested a thousand dollars in Blair witch project, you would have made back $7 million.

Of course that’s not the norm, but that is an example of how people made it with a horror movie, horror movies and thrillers are very big for that. Yeah. A lot of very high risk like just like startups. It’s a very small chance of it blowing up, but when it does, it goes crazy. But I like the idea of magazines. You can get a lot of free magazines because that’s how magazines make revenues. So they can, they send out a lot of free magazines to people, so they can go to their advertisers and say, look at all the subscribers we have, even though they’re fake subscribers. Like buying an apartment in St.

It’s 95% occupied, yet half of the people are paying rent, like it’s just it’s you got to make sure who’s actually paying of course, but yeah, good good stuff to think about. That’s like how Vegas is, right? When you’re walking around the strip, they have all this like wholesalers and outlets.

Is that kinda what they’re doing? Or you got to go direct to that. Vegas, you have all kinds of touristy things going on and whatever, but Hey, so actually, if you’re going to bake this and you want to see a show. For discounts. They’ve got all kinds of discounts available for Vegas shows too. When I do mention that and how to live like a millionaire when you’re a million short, so never pay full price for Vegas shows.

Obviously if you’re a, if you’re a high roller, if you do well at the casino, they’ll give you free passes, but there’s ticket booths. All around Las Vegas to get you into shows for discounts or go online before you go there. And there’s all kinds of discounted tickets for Vegas.

And another thing is people like make this. There are bangs now on your phone. Not only do you get the games for free, but you can win money. And I just put on my phone, which is listening to music, you can make money and they say, you can make $600 a year. Just keeping your phone on this app.

And I keep it low because I don’t listen to the music the whole time, but listening to music, you can make money and there’s all kinds of games. But what they do is. When you’re watching the games, they give you surveys or they give you other things to join if you want, but people are winning money on them.

But again, it’s a question of, do you want this stuff on your phone and, or are you lucky? And a lot of this stuff, it takes a little time, but. For me personally, I enjoy getting a good deal, even though it takes a little time. But yeah. Another thing is, if you like to buy things online, which I am buying a lot of things online now they have these places like rocket dim.

Or capital one shopping or piggy. And all you do is you put it on like your Chrome, where you buy things. And I get a check every single month from Rakuten, from things I’ve already bought. I get rebates. So I’ll get a 20, 30, $40 check every month. And it’s from stuff that I just normally wanted to buy.

Yeah. I’m goofy where I’ll go to Nordstrom and then buy expensive like lunch. Cause it’s they got pretty good food there and drink and I’ll go in there, walk around and see what I want to buy. Look it up on the internet or go to Facebook marketplace and buy it there. So I don’t waste my money on, yeah, you don’t have to buy it there as Nordstrom actually matches price.

So if you find it somewhere else, but you start at Nordstrom. If you ask them they’ll match the price for you. We’re not going to match Facebook marketplace for half of what they match Amazon. And we also the same thing with best buy and staples whenever I go to best buy and staples, which is a lot because I buy all my supplies there.

I will never just go to the checkout and pay the price. I’ll always price match. And even if they say something is on sale, as it mean that it’s not cheaper somewhere else. So whether I’m buying a 30. Dollar toner or a $3,000 computer. I will price match it while I’m there. Or you could ask the clerk to price, match it.

And almost 90% of the time you can find it somewhere else cheaper and they will give you that price. Yeah, such an items for sure. Other things. You’ve got to be careful of probably maybe better to buy a new, but. I don’t know. I just liked the socket dude, Nordstrom. I don’t like those kinds of companies.

I think it’s a waste of money. I had a thousand dollar jacket and I saw it at Nordstrom and I loved it so much, but it was way too expensive. So two of my rules are the first one is make an ask of yourself. In my first role asked, so I asked the sales girl, is this going to go on sale?

And she said probably necessary. I said can you call me when it goes on sale? And the other one is make a friend. So I made friends with her and she would call me every couple of weeks and say, Oh, your jackets on sale, your packets on sale. And so I would say, Oh I have a hundred is still too much in 300, still too much.

So she called me when it went out to 200 and I went in there and I was trying it on and I said could you do any better? She went in the back. She said, I’m giving you the family and friends price, $149. And it was a thousand dollars back then at Nordstrom’s. So she used to call me every time they were like good sales and I want to go in.

And then about a couple months later I went and she was no longer working in the Aaron wondered. Did she get fired because she has good prices. That’s the next one here? Take a virtual tour of foreign countries. Yes. Of course. Because of the pandemic. A lot of us are not able to travel now.

And if you like to travel there’s all kinds of places that you can go actually from the comfort of your own living room. And you could take virtual tourists all around the world. You can see the seven wonders of the world. You can see museums, there’s all different rooms in the loop you can visit virtually out of can city.

Other museums in Mexico city in New Zealand and Australia. What I like to suggest, because we are all stuck at home is if you want to go to a particular place and it could be a place you’re going to go to later, or maybe a place you’d never ever get to, make a plan. Maybe if you take Italy, go to Italy for the day.

Not only do a virtual tour, but make food from Italy and make it a whole day for the family where you have, lasagna for lunch and maybe, and Italian stuff, fish for dinner and boat, all the cities and the. Museums and make it a day and you can learn a lot. The thing is there are also lots of those tours, so you learn a lot and also you don’t have to take the plane.

You don’t have to schlep all that time or spend the money and you can see all these wonderful places around the world that you might not even be able to get to. Once things open up again. Yeah, something along those lines is if you go to wine.com and you search for this, but there’s, they have virtual wine tastings at home.

It’s cool. You got to buy their pack, you just watch the video. There’s a famous one where you get the Bonanza, the conundrum, and then the moneymaker right there. It’s fun. If you’re into that, you don’t need to leave your house splurge a little bit on good wine and your house, not the spend 50 cents on every dollar you drive or travel costs.

So that’s another idea there. my thing is it’s not just about saving money, but it’s about enjoying your life. And just because we are in this situation, we still need to take time. And those moments too, and max, what that’s what I believe. And that’s what had a live like a millionaire when you a million short, does it tells you not only how to save money, but also how to Enjoy every moment of your life to the fullest.

Exactly. I’m going to, into your closet, come out with some cash. No, this is good for people stuck at home, right? Yeah. Or even if you’re not stuck at home, it’s good because, like a lot of it has happened. NGS that we haven’t worn in years. We’re talking about clothes and I’ll start with clothes.

I had like jewelry that people had given me, like when I was 12 years old and it was literally sitting in my closet for decades. So I took it out and there’s a place called real, real.com. And it’s a high level consignment shop. If you put something in an assignment shop or a jewelry shop in your neighborhood, you have to.

Depend on people in the neighborhoods to buy it, but on the real, real.com, they. Publicize it to everyone around the world. So if you have find jewelry or you have designer clothes, the real, and they will either come to your place to get it, or you can do it all through the mail. Other places for things that might not be quite as upscale would be Poshmark or Etsy, you can sell things.

And even Facebook has a lot of marketplace groups where you can buy and sell things. Also, if you have. Of household items that you don’t Need you can go to offer up or next door com and sell them I go to the Emmy gifting suites every year, and I always get these fabulous gifts, a lot of which I don’t use.

So I had this beautiful gift box of. I have different types of honey and yesterday I sold it to somebody on nextdoor.com. I just put it up, Aaron. No, I’m not going to use it. I actually got three different packages. So I give some of them as gifts and some of them myself. So if you have good furniture and you want to try swap it out, this is called cherish.com, but there’s all kinds of ways for you to not only make money, but also

to buy things. If you’re looking to get things for less. And the other thing there’s a group called I nothing and buying nothing is in your local area. And there’s people who were just giving things away and. Sometimes it’s like brand new things that they’re giving away and you don’t have to trade.

You don’t have to do anything. If things you have, or you can take things that other people are gifting. I got a brand new shirt for my boyfriend and it still had the price tag of $150 on it. Somebody was just giving it away. There’s also a lot of furniture. If people give away. I see during the pandemic, a lot of people are getting like big desks because they don’t have their offices anymore.

Or they’re giving dressers or all kinds of furniture, lamps. And I have a girlfriend, actually, you can, of course, paint furniture, fabric. I have a girlfriend who actually painted her sofa. Now. I never knew you could paint, but, and one way of course, to learn how to do all this. Stuff is to go to YouTube.

They have all these, do it, yourself, videos of how to do all kinds of things. At some furniture and make it look brand new and make it look special because you can do it so that you have this only one piece that you’ve created. Yeah. Here in Hawaii, we have like bulky pickup days. It’s when everybody puts their crap out on the street.

I’m excited. When I get my new cyber truck, I can go drive around in the middle of the day and pick up some cool stuff. But yeah, that’s maybe that’s too much information, but Hey, just wipe it down. Make sure it’s it’s virus free. Yeah, and then redo it. I once did a, I had an old chest of drawers and my roommate at the time, she was very creative and she took this fabric of different colors and sheet.

We put the fabric on the chest and it was so beautiful. People wanted to buy it from us for tons of money because it was so incredibly special. So there’s all kinds of things you can do. And I liked those other more co-signer websites. That way it’s a little bit more secure. I do have a story where we sell a lot of stuff on Facebook marketplace and I don’t know what I was selling, but it was like a Bose speaker when I was like a hundred or $200 ones.

And I just never used it. I bought it because I had a gift card and then somebody was like trolling me or something. They’re like, Oh, how’d you get it? I was like I don’t need it. And there, somebody was like, Oh, what are you selling it for? And what the heck do you think I’m selling this thing for?

And then there’s this big troll thread of other people. And I’m like, man, like just people have too much time wasting on social media. Yeah. Yeah. You can’t worry about the patrols. It’s somebody, I have books out. I have used these out and there’s always pros. There’s always.

Even who were jealous, who are going to knock you down. But I have also sold a lot of things on eBay. I’m not like a regular eBay seller, but if I’ve gotten things again from Emmy gifting suites that I don’t want and they’re worth a lot of money, so I’ll put them on eBay. And I’m embarrassed to say I got something from buy nothing, a beautiful pair of Marc Jacobs shoes.

And they were too big for me. So I put them back on my thing because I was going to get them, but nobody wanted them while I put them up on eBay. And the next day they were bought for money. Yeah. That’s how I started with this entrepreneur stuff. I would buy and sell a lot of things on eBay.

I would sell my video games. And I don’t know. Maybe if you guys got kids up there, make a deal with them. If they sell it, do all the work, take all the fees, take it to the post office. Give them like half of the cut. Oh yeah. There are people who did that, I used to have a girl who just sold stuff on.

He ban, I would take our, all my. Because that was much easier and I didn’t have to spend the time doing it. Then there are shops that do it too, but they tend to take bigger commissions, but yeah, you can find a friend or someone that, that does it. That’s the easiest way.

Yeah. My wife likes to do that. She likes to waste her time doing this stuff. So sell stuff for her friends. And I think the deal that she has is she takes a 10% cut, but she sends up wasting so much time. Yeah. 10%. I’ll send my stuff to her. I know. Yeah. It drives me crazy. Absolutely crazy.

But cool. Last one here. Get furniture, household items for free. I think we talked about this, but any other. Sites to go to try. Oh yeah. I can tell you for medical procedures or for prescriptions I’ve found sometimes that has lower prices and in copay, and if you go to good rx.com, that’s a good place for checking how much prescriptions would cost at different.

Pharmacies in your neighborhood and sometimes it’s even lower than the pasta with your copays. The other thing is like I went to a periodontist, my dentist had been telling me for years, I needed to have a periodontist appointment and he wanted to do gum flap surgery, which would mean cutting the gums and then grafting from the top of my mouth.

And he said, Oh, it only cost $10,000. And I said, it’s $10,000 and cutting my time. And should I make an appointment? So I said give me some time. And I went home and I thought, what would the author of this book too? And so I went online and I looked for alternative procedures to go to flap surgery.

And I found that there was an alternative called LANAP and there was no cutting, no pain, no recovery. And it was about half the cost of the other. But I went further. I found the place that was about 30 miles away from LA, where I live and they was called millennium dental, and they actually trained dentist and periodontist all over the country to switch to this procedure.

So it wasn’t. Students, but it was actual dentists and periodontists. Who’d been in practice for 10 or 20 years. And this company, they were looking for volunteers. So I went there and I got the LANAP. I had no pain, no cutting, no grafting and no $10,000. I got it free. And I got a girlfriend of mine and for free plus, we got our cleanings free for the next year.

So sometimes if somebody gives you a high price, even if it’s a medical or dental procedure, or if you don’t want to do, you can actually negotiate with some doctors and say I don’t want to pay that to you have to be cheaper. Or sometimes you can offer to if they’re putting a video when their website, you can make a deal.

I’ll let you video me for whenever I’ve looked for alternatives because for instance, rhinoplasty is another one nose job can cost like from 15 to $20,000, but you can get a. 15 minute nose, job that has no pain, no recovery and no surgery. You come out looking better and it’s like a thousand instead of 20,000.

So there’s different ways you can find whether it’s an elective procedure or something like at my periodontist where they said, you must get this and they don’t tell you about the other thing, because they personally don’t do it. And take the difference and go blow it on something else. A Vegas, right? Another thing I was thinking of I, yeah, I had a rock stuck in my tire for the longest time. So I took it to Mercedes and they said I needed a new like wheel or something or new tire. And if they’re going to charge me like several hundred bucks and I was like, are you kidding me?

So I just went to Les Schwab. Down in the shady part of town and they fixed it for I called them and they’re like, Oh, it’s going to be like 29, 99. But of course, when I get down there, they see it’s a freaking Mercedes and they charged me like 60 bucks. But Hey, lot cheaper than buying a brand new tire.

That’s just ridiculous. But of course everything we’re saying here is a little, you don’t be a bonehead. Some of these things like meeting random people on Facebook marketplace be safe about it. Absolutely. Another thing that when things open back up again, I another thing I talk about in my book, one of my favorite tips used to be how you can get a vacation at a four star resort in Spain for six nights for free.

And people would say, how can you do that? And there’s actually a in town that if you’re a native English speaking person, they have four different resorts outside of Madrid and they will host you for six nights with all accommodations, all meals, activities, and why they want you. There is they have Spanish business, people who want to practice their conversational English.

And so the resort hosts. People, whether it’s from England or the United States or South Africa or Australia, but any English speaking people, and all you have to do is enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner and activities and pop. And people say, like I say I don’t speak Spanish. And the thing is you’re not allowed to speak Spanish.

She could only speak English. And I have a couple of friends who went and they said it was the best vacation it ever had in their lives. And some people loved it so much that we go back 15 times. So that’s another thing when things open up that I highly recommend. Yes, that’s on that one actually sounds pretty fun.

I do have an experience of my own going and do the Groupon China tour. Which I thought was a complete waste of time. I’ll never do again, but yeah, on Groupon, which also by the way, also does they fill seats at concerts. I’ve done that a bunch of times, but so Groupon has these like international tours and I don’t know if different countries are like this, but I know China’s like this, you go on there and it’s they even pay your airfare.

And it’s like a couple of thousand dollars, but it’s like a five or 10 day trip. It’s all meals, it’s five star hotels, but there’s always the catch. And the catch is that you’re pretty much captive to these like tour buses and then take you to a couple of these boring factory tours where you’re forced to buy stuff and you’re not forced to, but you’re just a time suck.

Thank you to the glass Floyd museum. They take you to the needlework museum. They take you to this clay museum to all, to like by seven years and you’re captive. So it was funny. There was like 20 people in the tour and there’s always four people or 20% of the group there.

they realize what’s happening. And they’re like, screw this. We’re out of here. This Texas, the hotel. We’ll figure it out, but yeah. Be aware of the the Groupon China tour. I use Groupon a lot for restaurants and also for my hair and stuff, but yeah. I still use it.

Now, when all the restaurants in LA are closed, even for outdoor dining, they were open for a while, but okay. Group bonds and use them for takeout now, but group bonds, I tell people don’t even buy the group regularly. Wait, so cause they always have sales for 20% off or 10% discount. So I wait.

So the sales and then I at discounts on my discounts and there’s also restaurants.com. That’s in, every year. City practically well, in the States, I don’t know whether it’s across the world, but there’s 18,000 restaurants where you can get restaurant Factom coupons. And so I use those too, but great restaurants I’ve used that before.

Like you said, you got to wait until the Groupon or the restaurant.com goes on sale, which happens. Most of the time, there’s always like a, I don’t know what it is. 35 or 50%. That’s the magic number, but yeah. Yeah. I wait for the restaurant coupons. Usually they’re like $10 for $25 certificate and they often go down to $5 or $4, but I’ll wait until they go down to $2 or $1 for $25 certificate.

And then I’ll on them at the restaurants that I like. So I’m getting a $25 certificate for a dollar. And then when you go, you have to spend 50. So you’re getting a, $50 meal for say 25, $26. So then it’s worth it. So I’ll one up you right there. You also run it through like Mr.

rebates.com or the Raku con. And they even will usually give you a 20% cash back on those. Coupons. So I’ve gotten it down to a dollar 40 cents for a $25 gift card. They pay you to go. I like it. I don’t do this anymore. Cause I think it starts to be a little waste of time and. Not all the restaurants are that great.

That’s why they’re on the damn thing in the first place. But yeah, like you would, I would buy them in like in 10 packs. You can buy them in five or 10 pounds. Here’s another thing too. There’s a couple of services. One is perfectly Frank and another one is I’m trying to remember the name of it, but they’ll actually pay you to go out to dinner or.

A restaurant club and what it is, you should have a mystery shopper. And I don’t do the mystery shopping thing where you have to go to a gas station or you have to go to target. But on the food ones, if you sign up for upscale restaurants, I have a girlfriend who’s been doing this for seven years and they’ll pay her to go to dinner at the peninsula hotel.

So they’ll pay for her dinner. And then she comes home and she goes out a questionnaire and then they’ll pay her like $60 or $200. Oh, she’s gotten to go to dinner with a friend at a big hotel or a fancy nightspot. So those are fun too. When things open up again, I got a question on that rush rushed on.com thing.

Like my big beef with that is you actually had to go sit down and dine in which now you’re cutting into my T I M E D. Now with the whole pandemic, they allow you to take out now. Yes. Oh, I’m on this. Yeah. I guess it depends where you live in LA everything is closed for any kind of indoor or outdoor dining.

And they want you to take out because the restaurants are failing now. So yeah. I’m using them for for take out. Yeah. And it helps them get their churn, to get people in and out buying stuff. Yeah. I use them all the time. The other thing I do is I go to happy hours.

Cause this is like Ruth, Chris. A lot of expensive restaurants in your neighborhood. If you go to there for dinner, you have two people. It’ll cost you a hundred bucks, but if you go for happy hour, you still get the ambience and the food. And some of them have really nice. Appetizers are like Ruth, Chris has steak sandwiches, burgers and fries, lobster tacos things that are substantial and you can get out of there for $25 instead of, a hundred dollars a person.

Cool. Cool. Yeah, once you drop you out so people can find you and also make sure folks did check out marlon’s book on Amazon, how to live with a millionaire when you’re a million short,

a millionaire.com. Oh, appreciate for coming on the podcast and like again, everybody be safe with this stuff. Don’t be a bonehead, but Yeah, hopefully you save some money and, take the money and put it right back into the economy somewhere else and have some fun. We’ll see you guys next time, but thanks so much

Tips for Creating Genuine Connections

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One tip I always have is yeah, you introduce yourselves, but it’s always about the other person help them out. Like one tip I’ve always followed for myself personally, is help out the other person first, which is why I do all these free onboarding calls to new investors is I’m just trying to add value to them.

In 15, 20 minutes, it’s a test, whoever reciprocates or stays around. That’s what food typically stays in my network for my circle. And so I would push that out. There is like, when you get into a set with somebody or a few people learn what the other people are doing and see how you can add value means, add encouragement.

If you don’t know anything, give them a referral and articles, something you’ve heard, or maybe there’s somebody else in the group that you met five minutes ago. The day before that you can connect them with a way to add value. So you’re not just standing there spying, right? You’re not a model or a statue.

And that’s part of connection because if I’m going to connect with you that it can’t just be this. Stoic stable face staring back at me. I have to give something to receive something and we do with the old analogy of the farmer. You’ve got to go out and plant something before you can go out into the field and look for anything to harvest.

And so showing up. Smiling engaging, asking about the other person, get to know something about the other person. I have a friend a few years back and she used to say, if I ask somebody three questions about themselves or what they do, or the type of work they’re involved with, and they never asked anything of me about me.

I write them off now. That’s pretty hard. So I’m not personally going to take that stand, but it does make sense because it’s really a one-way street. And sometimes we do that because we’re nervous. We know all the answers to our own story. I don’t necessarily know your story, but get good at having at least three good questions in your back pocket that you’ve thought about ahead of time.

So when you go into these types of settings that you can start the dialogue and not feel uncomfortable. Now I can think of conversation. Lane is like playing tennis. So if I hit a ball to you and you let it drop, I’m thinking you missed it. So I’ll serve you another ball. If you let it drop again, I might serve you another ball, but then I’m going to start saying you’re not a lot of fun to play tennis and that’s frustrating.

Right? All right. You’re listening to lane and Deborah, talk about these tips or asking questions, but it’s hard to do anything unless the other person is playing tennis, but you and being vulnerable. Right. Show your insecurities, tell people what you’re working on, what you don’t know, maybe you haven’t heard about real estate professional assessment asks a freaking question.

Because that’s how you hit the ball back over the net. And this is how it works, but it can be frustrating, right? Debra, if you’re not in a place where people know how to swing the racket and get the ball over the net, right. And this is why I say it’s a waste of time to go to most local real estate club events or free online forums, because you’re in a room with people who are all about themselves, their selfish mindset.

And it’s all about what’s in it for them. I’ve curated my group and people who come to my events. It’s a different type of crowd, mostly because I’ve gotten to help the people out of here. The people that don’t fit that aren’t this abundance mindset or not just in it for them, they’re gone. So set the culture in a way and curated the list.

To be decent tennis players here stay as far away, but that’s hard, right? It’s hard to practice with people who don’t know how to swim it is. And then there’s the other side of playing tennis. So then you, I say to you Lang let’s go to the court again tomorrow. Let’s try again and you’re ready. So you’re there with your bracket and I stand on the other side of the net and just bounce the ball on my own racket.

And you’re saying Debra, I thought we were going to play tennis. And as we are, and you’re thinking if you were just going to bounce the ball in your own racket, you could’ve done that at home. And I didn’t need to even get dressed to show up. And that’s what I call a monologue and not a dialogue. When you ask somebody, how are you today?

And they never stopped talking. It’s all about them as you just. Mentioned and, Oh goodness. I’ve been to so many networking events where I’ve had people come up and shove their business cards on me and their books on me and their things and talk about what they’re doing. And I walked away going, that’d be the last person in that field I’d ever heard.

And those people typically never get anywhere. So there really isn’t much motivation to follow up there.

Can You Extract Depreciation From Your Primary Residence?

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Can you cost segregate out and aggressively extract the depreciation on a primary residence that you want to live in. Let’s talk a little bit about that, that you cannot do. You’re not allowed to depreciate your own call. The exception to that would be if you’ve got certain areas that are used exclusively for business, but even then it may not be advisable to do that because if you.

 

Are segregating a certain portion of your home for a home that you own. Then when it comes time to sell the home, if you sell it at a game, you will actually have to deal with a capital gain portion of the home, which might more than offset any of these options gotten for that area of your home.

How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

I think when we step back one of the taglines for final touches, how do you want to be remembered? And that’s not just thinking about some people take it to the morbid side of when I’m dead. Certainly they will all be remembered at that point in some manner. But how do you want to be remembered when you walk out of the room?

When you click in the meeting on your zoom call, when you got off the telephone or you’ve just finished that email, how do you want to be remembered? That’s really quite powerful. That takes a big picture approach to every single interaction that I have with someone, whether it’s going to be brief in passing, maybe at a networking event or on a zoom call where I just see a little face on a tile or it’s long and lasting.

Maybe it’s somebody that I really do work at. Setting up engagements and having other points of contact. How do I want to be remembered? And it doesn’t matter if you’re an introvert or not. Actually, I used to be much more of an introvert than I am today. I would stand back and observe and watch people and it took practice.

All I had to do was learn some skills, practice those skills. And it became much easier. And once I understood the why does it really matter? Why does it really matter? What’s Hey, to all of us say what’s in it for me, but what’s in it for us in creating those connections. And for me, when I go into a networking event, I’m always looking reign for, do I really see others?

Because I think it’s easy for our brain to get focused on everything else that’s going on around us. All the distractions. Is my phone beeping at me or vibrating or is it not? And I’m concerned about that. Who’s in the room. Do I have the skill? I’m a little bit nervous stepping up and speaking up, but do I come fully prepared, fully present, fully ready to engage with the people that are there.

That’s important. And if I really do see others, and then I look for ways to connect with them. Virtually or in person, then I’m beginning to create those relationships that are going to enable me to find the clients that I’m looking for and find the people that I need to connect with because in business, everything is about those relationships.

Do it Yourself Cost Segregations w/ Bill Smith

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Hey Simplepassivecashflow listeners. Today, we have Bill Smith here who is going to tell us all about the, do it yourself, cost segregation. For those of you guys who own single family homes or rental properties on your own, this can be a great cost effective means for doing a cost segregation, but hey Bill help me.

Let’s start at the top. No investor left behind. What is a cost segregation before we start drilling into this, do it yourself one. Okay. Okay. Essentially a cost segregation study, a real estate asset, mostly residential. What you’re dealing with is 27 and a half years or 39 years.

And so that’s your straight line depreciation. You can take that deduction every year to reduce your. Tax liability. What cost segregation does is we break down a building, essentially dissect it into its component parts, like when you were in eighth grade and you’re in biology and it does dissect a frog and take everything out.

all those parts, we put a different life to them. So those parts have a different life. And by short life, in those certain components that the IRS allows you get greater deductions upfront, realizing time, value of money. And then you can invest in more properties. So essentially that’s what we do is.

Dissect the building assign a new life. They call reclassify that property. And then you have higher deductions in earlier years. Very elegantly said. and if you guys want to learn more about cost segregation, go and check out podcasts. One 37. We did a little bit more deeper dive into the topic.

And I have a master cost degradation guide. If you are more of a reading and on your free time type of person, go to simple, passive casel.com/cost SEG. And while you’re on the page, you can also put it in your email and sign up for the newsletter to get the free Gootee there at, which is the K one tracker form or those syndication investors who have all these K ones all over the place and keeping track of your deductions, which.

You get those deductions by doing these cost segregations and on some of the larger deals, I can see like almost 50. It is 80% come back or what they invest as first year depreciation, but that’s all fine and dandy on the big deals, the syndication deals. But what we’re talking today is this cost effective.

Do it yourself. One that really makes it worthwhile to do on a smaller property. When I do it on my apartments, bill and I were looking at, This last deal and going to cost say get out. We don’t know the exact price yet, but it’s in the range of what, four to $6,000 typically on a large building and on a smaller building, it can be, you’ve got to send a guy out there and there’s a lot of modeling.

but there’s another way of doing it. And maybe bill, if you could go through that, what we’re talking about today, the paired down version. Yeah. so DIY cost sag is a platform we developed after being in the industry since 2002 and doing, well over 15,000 studies and we saw a need in the market for smaller properties under a million dollars.

And whether it’s a single family, residential, duplex, or triplex, we cover those, or it might also be a dentist office or any other kind of commercial property under a million, we actually go up to $3 million, but it’s a lower cost quicker alternative. So how that works is we’ve built a modeling system and we’ll model the property.

So it’s a non inspection product. It takes essentially. Five or 10 minutes to input the data you put in your credit card and you get your results instantly. So what happens with that is you’re done and you get your results. So it is going to air conservative and because we’re not inspecting it, there’s been a lot of talk like on bigger pockets.

Maybe you’re focusing on to BiggerPockets about these solutions. We have tremendous supporters and people that have questioned it, mostly competitors. But we provide audit protection. So in the event, you’re audited, which is very rare, but if you are audited, we are going to send an engineer out there and do a full engineering study, which we do.

again, we’ve done well over 15,000 a year, since 2002. So we will defend you fully. So you’re protected, but it’s a quick and easy solution, whether it’s a one to four family. With the discount code that you’ve got through here, with lane, it is a $640. That’s a one to four. It doesn’t matter.

What’s a single family or quad anything in between. And if it’s under a million dollars in five plus units, it’s 1200 and $1,390. That includes the auto protection is one 95 it’s insurance policy. So basically. It works great. It’s a good solution for the right situation. Certain, there are plenty of properties that are under a million or right in that borderline that justify the full asset detail that you’d get from a cost segregation study for.

A future of abandonment and disposition and things that depending on your purpose with the property and what your plans are with it, I talked to folks and say, this is your best option, or this is your best option. Are you looking to maximize your depreciation and do a lot of value add? Or are you just looking for quick deductions?

And an answer here, if you’re a real estate professional or not, sometimes that makes a difference. how valuable are these, tax deductions to you for an option? And it also takes into account like, how long are you going to put onto the property? It’s just like a turnkey rental that you’re going to dump in three years to go to syndication deals.

Maybe it doesn’t make sense. But if you’re costing out maybe a little bit. Larger property, especially in California, maybe that might be just enough to get some tax savings, to save up more money and eventually, go into deals and get cost segregations there and then sell the properties and not have to do a 10 31 exchange as I don’t like at all.

but you guys can go to against civil pass, a castle.com/costs say, and then there’s the link there with the discount code SPC, but I really wanted to dive into. there’s some controversy with this stuff when they go that’s so let’s speak to it. That’s how that mature conversation about the risks of what they are and some of the cons.

Okay. So you’re asking him what the cons are. The cons are, you have to have a habitats liability and you have to be able to use the benefits. I talk to people to say, okay, I want to get this. I heard about this depreciation. I want a bonus. I want everything.

It’s like Laurie real estate professional will know you got a deputy job. Yes, you’re good. They don’t have that much income where potentially straight line can almost neutralize their needs. they have to actually need it and have the doctors because there are passive, of course, if it’s a business property, and not residential, or it’s Airbnb, I talked to a guy the other day, he was calling about this and he’s doing Airbnb.

He was like, put this on my schedule C and I’m like, yeah, you could, because it’s a 39 year commercial property based on your tax situation. that’s a discussion with your CPA. So he was looking at getting these deductions on a schedule C, which actually did make some sense, but again, we’re not CPAs.

We don’t give that advice. So I talked to folks what makes sense for you? What’s your tax need and is this the right thing to do? And anything from, $58,000 single family, we did the other day with a guy in upstate New York. Too, we just did a $120 million, building in Atlanta, which obviously is a full cost.

Yeah. I’ll, I’m not a CPA, but I’ll walk people through the quick math in their heads. So basically we all know that on the residential rental property. You’re able to deduct one 27, the building value every year. So on a hundred thousand dollars property, let’s just assume that half of that property value is the building value, but in a lot of places that we like to invest in the Midwest and South with lower land values, that probably two thirds of it, but let’s just go at $50,000 and a hundred thousand dollars purchase price.

Now you divide that by 27. so 50,000 divided by 27. You’re roughly talking about a couple of grand a year of deductions, which is great. But. When you do a cost segregation, the general rule, as you’re looking to bottom third of the building value in the first year via cost segregation using utilizing bonus depreciation.

So one third of that building value 50,000. So you’re looking at 18 something like that. Yeah. So 18 grand compared to about two grand. So maybe a little bit less than 10 times, the amount of deductions you withdraw out in that first year.

That is right. But I think in the market, you’re talking about, you’re giving a lot of value to land because you live in Hawaii and usually in a CPA like Brandon Hall, he always wants to use the assessed value. And if the assessed value is below 20%, you go with the assess value. If it’s not, you look at the 20% is the rule.

A lot of people use. I’ve got people to use 10%. On pretty aggressive properties. We have to be able to support that. So we’re going to, it’s a problem. We’re going to say, wait, we can’t justify that land value for you, but usually 20%. So that a hundred thousand deal you’re looking at 80,000, let’s say it was 20% just at a conservative number for a house that’s a $20,000 deduction in year one with bonus depreciation.

And that goes to the end of 2022, unless the new administration happens to change that. we don’t know if they would or can and. And how quick that would actually happen, but it won’t happen on January 23rd. We know that, I’ve got a couple more years thinking and employ this strategy, but it’s ultimately, it sounds great, right?

You’re getting 10 to 15 times more deductions of first year, but there’s a cost to this. And when I do it for my large apartment buildings, I’m usually paying five grand or so on that thing to do this, to extract it out. but that requires sending, out a guy, unexpensive to travel out there, but that’s obviously not cost effective to spend $5,000 to get $20,000 of deductions at 25% tax bracket.

That’s a break even. So that’s where this do it. Yourself. Cost segregation product comes in. But bill, let me put you on the spot here. Why would lane spend $5,000? What else am I getting in my costs say that somebody’s spending 600 bucks and one of these things is getting. Just sitting no eyes wide open what they’re going into.

what does a huge difference? And I think on your bigger deals, if you’re spending 5,000, you’re not getting a very good study. You need to spend more than 5,000. They’re usually between five and 10. So on an apartment complex, it might be 7,500, six, six to eight, depending again, on the engineering that’s done.

So on a full study, we look at it and I think anybody else would look at. What are the engineering hours it’s going to take to do the work? Cause we send somebody on site. We count everything. We qualify everything and we do all the asset detail. So in a full study, you get complete pass at detail, meaning.

All your roof deal tale, all your HVAC detail, all your straight line detail, as well as all your short life detail, carpeting, flooring, cabinets, everything you’ve got. and we give a, a hundred page report back to you showing out all that detail. And we go into everything, electrical breakers, no one else gets the breakers.

We need things that people don’t do. So we wind in our deeper, but everybody goes in an engineer’s pretty deep and gets all the outlets and things. So that’s what a full study is. It’s a lot of pages. It’s a lot of research and a lot of documentation with the guy on site, too. Oh, yeah. You always see a guy inside.

Yeah. You always seen a guy inside an engineer. We send our own engineers. Some people would send picture takers and interviewers and stuff, but somebody all wasn’t goes on site. That’s pretty much what happens now with DIY it’s a non inspection product. So DIY means we’re modeling. So we are going to air conservative.

So if we would have gotten a 25% results by going on site, we might get 19% by the. DIY, because you’re not sending somebody on site. If in fact, you’re audited, though, again, as I mentioned, we will go send somebody on site and we will do that a hundred page report for you. But what you’re going to get with DIY is a model solution, which is what a lot of the people out there do models and residuals and sampling, and they add pictures and some engineering.

But what you get is a one-page report that gives you your five, seven, 15 and 27 and a half year. And then some categories of generally what it would be, and then a receipt. And then your data inputs, because some people input the date wrong. We fix it for them. We don’t charge. You’re afraid of that. you get a very streamlined report, but that’s all the CDA cares about CPR.

And 100 pages, they want five, seven, 15 and 27 and a half to put on your tax return and they’re done. So that’s what DIY does. So it gives you a lower number. It’s a lot less expensive. And so that’s why it’s good for the lower value properties where maybe you can’t justify a five or $10,000 study or for that, and then we also have a hybrid.

So one of the things to think about which I did, we did a million to house and sound like Hawaii, but that’d be a small house and wine LA this year we did a desktop. So a desktop takes our fully engineered study methodology. We use an engineer, but we don’t inspect. We ask the homeowner for answer a few questions.

Maybe get a few more pictures because the appraisals usually don’t have good property pictures. If they have a listing, like this was an Airbnb listing, then we had a lot of great pictures, had a swimming pool and tree. amazing grant, great landscape, good view. We got 52% of the property value for her.

She was blown away. She was like, wow, no, that’s not, doesn’t happen all the time. But that one, she’d been just a little bit under it, it might’ve got a DIY would not get near that because we just don’t know these specialty Palm trees and some nimble hot tub and the things that it says pool. So we’ll do the valuations, but it was, and that’s going to be a lower cost product about halfway between the DIY.

And the, full study, but so on a big house like that, they’re usually in the three to $4,000 range, but you’re going to get a full study, fully defendable, and you get a lot of detail. And that’s the thing, when you do one of these studies, if you were due to one, I would really suggest you guys get the audit protection.

So how does that kick in. I think there’s a pretty low chance of getting audited if you were. I dunno if like the percent chance, but I think it’s pretty dang low. It’s very low. of all the tax returns they get out at 4% of all returns get pulled for audit, which is a low number four or five.

and Cost segregation. Depreciation does not trigger on it. We’ve done over 15,000 studies. We’ve done plenty of audits, but relatively speaking, very few, but cost segregation has never been the trigger for the audit. People have got an audit for something else and when they get an audit. Of course, they look at everything.

They come in, they’re looking at everything. So now they’re going and depreciation schedules on the trip. So they say, okay, we need to check out why you did this or whatever. We send a report. If they asked a specific question, we answered their question. We showed the documentation to the report and the auditors happy.

Cause there’s somebody out of college, working for PWC or something and they go check and they’re off to the next thing. They got a list of 30 or 40 days or so. They’re happy. Our report is Bulletproof. And we’ve helped defend people that have been audited themselves. They got in trouble.

We’ve gone defended them. When guy was an honor, for two years, we did a quick study. We did a 27 page engineering letter, like a study summary. They send to the IRS in two days, the closest case. He had three more plants and was building a fifth plant. And so we, we got a client for life out of that.

Yeah, audits, but they’re rare. you want to anticipate the worst and expect the best. so walk me through this. Like I get the cost SEG, right? If I’m two bucks or so, you use my code to get a little off of that and maybe that helps pay for half of the audit protection and another a hundred bucks.

like a couple of years go by and the audit, maybe something else that gets flagged in my tax return. And he started digging into this. What do I do? so like, all right. I email bill and say, all right, man. the audit protection thing I bought, what’s the steps at that point?

You guys like, all right, man, we got it. We’re going to send the guy out and what’s the timeline and what are the steps? So what’s going to happen in the event. There’s an audit, your CPO, get involved, they’ll call us and say, Hey, we’ve got an audit and they’re looking at your depreciation schedule and say, yes, this one will not support an audit.

So we will then send somebody out onsite. Do the study, get it back and defend it. Usually have a specific question. So we might be able to defend it and just answer those specific questions. But if we need to go out and do a full study of it, and if we go to a full study, we’re going to find five, 10% plus more.

So you’re going to make sense. Oh, thanks for auditing because we actually have another $25,000 in appreciation. We didn’t claim. So we’re going to do a 31 15 change of accounting method. And where do you get this? And actually you owe us a refund. It may not go like that. that’d be a really happy ending, but we will find a lot more detail and we will get more benefit for you.

So there’s no chance there’s going to be any problems. Yeah. I think the do it yourself model is pretty dang close. Anyway. It might be so negligible. That it may not even matter, but I don’t know if that’s true if you do get audited and they do blow things up and you do find that your costs sake comes back even stronger, that you should go back and refile it seems like you should write, maybe just wait till the dust settles and refile next year.

So you don’t piss off that particular auditor. they forget that they’re not that’s that, but if you’ve done it in the year you purchased it. So you’ve already done component level depreciation. So actually you can’t go and do another 31 15 change of accounting method on the same thing you’ve already done.

I had someone ask me if they could reverse it because now they’re real estate professional. Two years later, go back to straight line for two years and then do it 31. I said, no, you can’t that’s well, there’s a lot of tax. I had to go to CPA on that one. And what if they didn’t pay for that insurance a hundred bucks.

Sharon’s how much legal fees or CPA fees does that take to defend something like that, just going out and doing a study or getting a study, you just have to go out and pay that $5,000 for a study, So you do have to defend that. So it’ll be certainly defendable. there’s no issue.

It’s not gonna be wrong. You just have to give them the detail. And that’s what the one big audit we did for that client. He did it. He was basically right. the CEO when they were doing, rubber for Nike and a whole bunch of stuff, he was basically right, but he didn’t have the backup details.

IRS wants you to detail out what you did. And that’s where our study with, our traditional study has straight-line components completely broken out. No one else does that. Unless you pay for an asset detail report. And they’ll charge again, another five or six grand on top of that original five or six brand they charged.

And so okay, now you’re looking at, 12 grand when we get an ELB for maybe seven for a thousand more that you’re looking at because we do the detail on everything. And what happens when you have that is you get dispositioned abandonment, which creates expense. So expense is great. So what you’re not going to get from, let’s say you’re doing roofs and things.

So you get a roof. We’ve put a value on it for if it’s about to be changed and we’re not going to high value with visit, it looks like it needs to be, it’s not a 30 year roof. We might have 20, $30,000 right on the roof, sat in an apartment complex. Like I’m one of the, one of your bigger projects or even a, on a house, houses that , we do with.

So what happens guys are during the shingles that rip off the shingles on the dumpster, they haul them away to landfill and then boom, throw them away and you put on a new $200,000 roof. On residential, you can’t expense it on commercial. You can expense it. Expenses are always better depreciation, but what happens?

You had $20,000 for the value on that roof. You just throw it away. And so at a, a 33% tax bracket that is $6,600, you just throw away. If you don’t have the asset detail and don’t know how to dispose of it or retire that asset that you’re replacing on a straight line. which is actually requirement from the IRS and their TPRS tangible property rates from 2014.

So that’s why asset detail’s important when you’re going to be doing a lot of repairs and maintenance, especially the straight line. It’s also important for the short life property. But now since a hundred percent bonus is in place, anything is five-year property carpeting things you’re replacing. Once you’ve done hardship bonus, it’s already written off.

You’ve disposed of it. It’s off your books. And so you just basically put in five years, so you spent 10,000 on flooring, you put 10,000 five-year life flooring, So when we help our clients identify, life components when they get replacements. Yeah. And the farm is pretty dummy-proof, it’s pretty easy.

Then you can do it in five minutes when I was looking at it. but yeah. So when people, they. Oh, you guys, this insurance, are you guys? Self-insuring it. It’s not through a third party. We’re self-insuring okay. Okay. So you guys, yeah. I’m sure you guys stand behind that percent chance of audit.

Cause your guys, the one, owning up if it’s the higher than that, right? that’s, that’s IO people always ask Oh, what do you think? The steel’s good look, man, I’m putting in my money. That’s what I think. And in this way, you guys are like, self-insuring these audits and not, you guys are going to do the work.

If we had charged with this kind of insurance policy that you guys have in place. so the odds are very low and we’re going to be Aaron conservative. So you’re not going to get maximum benefit. But you’re going to get good benefits and you’re going to get actually very similar to what some of our competitors do because they’re using modeling solution.

They’ve done a little bit engineering. We’ve actually done some tests and comparisons. We actually go up to 3 million now, on that net goes up, it’s not 640, that’s just for a house, but it goes up to close to 3000, I think for, a higher property. And we also, then we just, we do them on mobile home parks.

Those, we almost manually do our guide behind the curtain. He works on those, DIY is a great solution. It’s been really well adopted. A lot of folks in bigger pockets are big fans. A lot of folks are a lot of CPAs that use it for the smaller clients that have investors. I get a lot of calls and I get calls all the time.

They’ll go onto our website. Hey, I’ve got this house, let me know. And so we’ve got it. a number of big CPAs that also refer us when they have a smaller client. I talked to them and I set it up and they got 10 houses, or I get one, got a guy that had 10 houses. We’d get on Thursday. We connected and did 10 houses last Thursday.

All right. So yeah, to close things out, this, the why is this important guys, while you get the passive losses from these things, and you can offset your. Passive income. But if you’re super smart, like how we work our taxes, we played a real estate professional status. There’s a lot of nuances to that which we talk about every other week in the mastermind group, you guys can learn more about that.

It’s full passive cashflow.com/journey, but you can do tricks like this and. Now, I’m sure people who’ve listened to podcasts awhile. No, quite really don’t like 10 31 exchanges. I don’t know why anybody does them, who is a syndication investor, because, here’s my tax form that I have to display.

This is on the cost SEG website, simple passive cashflow.com/costs. So this year was I think, 2017 or 18 when I sold seven of my single valuable rentals. That previously done a 10 31 exchange. So I know all what they’re all about. I would never do one again and I don’t recommend it for most people, but I had a $200,000 capital gain see here on line 13, but because I was doing all these syndication deals doing cost segregations, like bill does, I was getting all these losses and they’re just piling up.

So when I had this big capital gain, I just brought it over here on line 17 to knock it right out and no gain. Without a 10 31 exchange. if you guys are thinking a 10 31 exchange, please don’t do it. Read this article, please don’t waste your money and don’t be a sucker or distressed. We call them the suckers, but they’re distressed buyers.

Whenever we want to sell an apartment, we jumped for joy when there’s a 10 31 buyer, because they are distressed buyers. But yeah. So coming to this page, that’s the main thing we’re talking about today is do it yourself cost SEG bill also does regular cost eggs. He’s looking at some of my apartments right now, to do it the, heavy duty way.

But this is the pair down for the show, slowly on 10 30 ones, because 10 30 ones. for some people generational wealth handing to the kids and what it was really designed for back in like the thirties or something like that. But people not using, Oh, I just want to get rid of taxes.

They use it for the wrong reason. And there’s so many, as you showed a great example, you don’t need a 10 31 necessarily to reduce your taxes. So I’m not a fan of 10 30 ones either. There’s a guy in those internet form that always gets into like an argument on the internet forums.

So to me and buck had 30 ones, he’s a 10 30 ones. He sells 10 31. So they always this is outrageous. You’re like 10 30 ones are like the best, no, man, like just looking at your small world, like this is the bigger picture. yeah, maybe in that world it is the best strategy that you know of, but I know something that’s a little bit better.

That’s right. And Joe Biden had said, he’s going to, the first thing he did was to go after his 10 30 ones is a low hanging fruit. And I don’t know if he’s at that’s just political talk or why, politicians say anything to get elected, but he said 10 30 ones showed more risks than bonus depreciation this point.

I will see what happens. I appreciate it. I don’t think people understand like that. You can depreciate an asset like with bonus depreciation. So therefore it’s out of the vernacular of the common American, like ABC can make an article on it basically. So yeah. let them have the tender one is what I say.

yeah. Yeah. Should we actually say, what bonus depreciation is done? And we define that. Did we. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And, we also did mention a little bit that it is going to be going away in 2022, I think like stepping down 20% every year. So it’s not going away entirely, but.

Let’s cross our finger and it gets, renewed, right? Yeah, it will. What’s going to happen in 2022 and now it’s a hundred percent. And in 2023, it goes to 80% and then it goes to 60% and it goes to 40%. It’s been a hundred percent once before, and it’s been 50%, several times to infuse the economy, And so let’s say you bought a property in 2020. You didn’t realize cost you do it in 2021 and 2022. You will still, if we knew cross sag in the future and do what we call it, look back study. You still get bonus depreciation in the year that you paid for it. Bonus depreciation was in fact, or if you bought some in 2016, Wayne you’ve introduced me to a whole new world.

Oh my gosh. I bought this $5 million book apartment complex. And in 2016, we can do a site study on that. Now get that lost opportunity in 2016. 50% bonus depreciation. Of course the key thing is all a five-year we’re doing a catch-up you’re going to get it all in year one anyway. So what bonus appreciation is besides the word?

Everybody knows. Okay. We’ve heard about it. We’ve talked about 27 and a half year, 15 year, seven year. And five-year seven years. It’s your phone lines, but your short life, anything that has a shorter life than 20 years. You can depreciate in your one, it’s an election on your software, your CPA software, you still put in your five, seven and 15, but that bulk number, which might be 20 to 25 or 35 or 45%, I’ve seen some multi-families go to, you can take it all in year one doesn’t mean you get extra.

It just means you get it to take in year one. So you get that big deduction like you got in your properties. So you all set that big capital gain. So now you’re going to have to buy more properties next year to offset your other capital gains. So it just keeps going and you’re going to keep building your portfolio and your wealth.

So that’s how it keeps working. I call the, I call that the simple passive cashflow gravy train. Once you keep rolling and rolling. And people always ask don’t you sell your properties and you’ve got to pay back the depreciation and recapture and the capital gains, yeah.

But hopefully in the meantime, you went into dozens of deals and then you accumulated all these passive loss and then you take that money that you did make and put it into two or three new deals. Get the good towns rolling. That’s right. that’s the other thing that people that I don’t like as well as recapture all recapture and like 10 30 ones are also great recapture so bad.

Not necessarily because, one, we know tax rates are going up. And especially capital gains rates. So if capital gains rates go up to ordinary income, right then recapture, you can recapture anyway on your straight-line property. So do you want to, you’re going to pay taxes on that money either in the future or today just saw your tax rates are lower today.

So recapture is not such a bad thing. if you’re using the money, if you’re buying one house and you’re sitting on it for years and you might sell them, buy another house. Yeah. It’s probably makes sense. But if you’re investing. And turning your money. We have big clients. I won’t say the names, but they do it on everything.

They bought hotels in Hawaii, their bicep, all over the country building and buying they’re opportunistic. They might sell it, but they’re using that money. And the return they get on that money is greater than the tax rate they’re paying capita. So again, it could be bad. Again, it depends on your situation, but recapture and especially if.

Ordinary income tax rates or cap gains go to ordinary income tax rates. It makes it a moot point. You’re going to pay me now, pay me later. but the money in your pocket today, but yeah, there are, people are looking at this myopic thing. they’re looking at in one off deal one property and yeah, you do have to pay the depreciation recapture back, but I tell them like, Hey dude, look at the big picture.

You better be in like, 10 20 deals, right? Like in the next five, 10 years. Like they’re not only having one. you’re in multiple deals that are all kicking off these passive losses. So they all help, like in the big picture of things, right? Yeah. you’re going to pay tax on the recapture money anyway, so you can either pay him later in the future or pay them now.

And are not paying now and that’s what cost segregation as it differs, if it’s a tax deferral strategy. so anyway, what, what else? I love all your pictures there. All the parties you’ve had are all the groups, masterminds and networking groups. It’s fun out there in Hawaii.

Yeah. that’s where you get all these strategies, right? It’s not just like the neck when I read about this stuff in a book, because this stuff changes so quickly, right? Like bonus depreciation is a rather new thing, but that’s, I’m always preaching on develop your network.

Right? Most people, myself included when I started out, the best thing was like listening to the senior worker and to keep it going. That’s absolutely not the guy to listen to for financial advice. Yeah. Finding your peer group of pure passive upgraded investors doing this stuff. And that’s when you’re going to find these still chicks tips like this, just like the, do it yourself, cost sake, which, yeah, again, check it out.

As simple as a casper.com/cost say great for smaller property and mango airport folded on it. Cool bill. appreciate it. We’ll talk a little bit later about some loose. They, the larger ones, largest cost variations, but, yeah. Of you even want to get a hold of you? I’m gonna duct you’re contacting for, if not, they can reach out to me and I can do I’d have to you guys later on.

It’s pretty simple. It’s bill. At ELB cost seg.com. So ELB cost SEG is our firm cost segregation. It’s CLB consulting, but the website ELB costs. So just build an ELB cost side. And my phone number is four zero seven four seven five five four seven. It is my cell (480) 747-5547. Perfect. And, if you guys want to learn how to get these costs, surrogation bonus appreciation stuff.

That’s where the syndication deals come in, get yourself educated, pick up the new, go to simple paths to casel.com/syndication to check out the free guide there and see if the e-courses for you. But we’ll see everybody next time. Thanks very much.

Is a Cost Segregation Worth it on a Single Family Home?

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How much does it cost segregation cost? It doesn’t make sense to do it on a smaller property, or is there a certain rule of thumb that you have. In general. It’s hard to say if there’s an exact rule of thumb, but I have done studies on single family dwellings that were purchased for under a hundred thousand dollars.

And actually they, they worked. And one of the reasons is because we’re able to do those studies generally for under $2,000. And that the benefit that will be real honest from a cost segregation study will exceed the cost of doing it. Buy enough of a margin to make it worthwhile. And that’s in a situation where the owner is looking to own that property for the longer time, horizon five, 10 years plus disposing of the property a year or two later, it’s probably not worth doing.

Can You Put Cash from ROTH into an LLC?

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Question. Can you put cash from Roth into own LLC that owns passive income? No, you cannot. That would be oddly what’s called a prohibited transaction. So when you own rental property in your IRA, or any of these self-directed IRA accounts, there’s a arms length transaction rule where you can’t be adding sweat equity.

For example, when you buy a property and yourself director, I R a, you can’t be doing the property management. You have to pay third parties to do that. So by putting cash into your Roth and investing in Roth into your LLC, you also are violating like you can’t self deal. And I believe you cannot even partner with relatives or something like that.

As far as there’s, I’m sure there’s a lot of people that do this thing where they have a good buddy. Who’s good. At real estate, they invest. Their Roth IRA or self directed Roth IRA with their buddy and vice versa the way I see it, I think that’s a good way to getting around that totally follows the rules.

And yet I don’t do that because I don’t do any debt, investing. Everything I do is equity. And I also do that because I get the appreciation alongside of it.

This is the Next Big Tax Deduction

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And there’s a crazier one Lane, you and I have never spoken of, which is the solar credits that are still floating around out there for business use. For example, what’s going to become a big incentive and I can almost tell you that this is going to be a reality. So I’m going to get my crystal ball out and say, you’re going to watch this.

And then we’re going to listen to this in three or four years and say, we were predicting right now if I put a solar array on it and let’s say it costs me a million dollars, I get a tax credit. Of $260,000, 26%. Even if I finance the whole thing, I get a credit. That’s not a deduction, that’s a dollar for dollar credit.

So if I owe a hundred thousand dollars in taxes and I have a $270,000 tax credit, I don’t pay any tax that year. I use a hundred thousand of it and I carry it forward into future years, but I also get to depreciate. The solar United depreciate, 87% of it. So a million bucks, I’m going to get an $870,000 deduction in year one, plus a $260,000 tax credit.

And I think they’re going to increase those incentives. It used to be 30% and then this year went down next year. It goes to 22%. So that solar panel, you can deduct it all in the first year. You can deduct 87% of it. And you get a tax credit for 26%. Maybe I should go around Hawaii and find a contractor.

It makes deals with some people, but some solar panels have just sell off the credits to investors a year. You’re already there. Yep. That’s exactly what they’re doing. So I have a client. That’s what he does. He installed solar, but it gets interesting. What he does. He goes to a utilities, public exempt organizations, 501(c)3 churches.

And he’ll go find a wealthy parishioner and say, Hey, would you put the solar array on and then do a five-year contract on the energy because there’s going to be energy independent. And so they’ll sell it to the charity and say, Hey, after five years, the array is yours. And so he’s taken the big tax credit to have a little tiny bit of income on the.

Revenue that’s coming in because they’re selling them the electricity or they’ll usually they just give a right to the charity. So that washes itself. There’s a deduction. And so you have a little bit of income with a deduction that equals that, but you get that first year. It’s a ridiculous deduction, but where that’s really going to be important later is next year, if the taxes do increase, guess who’s going to be really incentivized to do stuff.

That’d be cool. Like investors bring into capital, they get the tax incentives and the plan owner gets. Cheaper energy. Yeah. What they do is they lock it in and they’ll say your energy, won’t go up for five years and then you have the right to buy it at some peppercorn price. So you’ve already depreciated it.

So you don’t really care. You would recognize all the income as ordinary income. If you sold it. For more, more than your basis. So you have a really tiny basis. So that’s what you sell it to them for you like, Hey, 13% basis or whatever that is. So I just want to not pay anything. Yeah. So during those five years, I have a little bit of energy money coming in and I have a payment on the loan, on the solar that it’s basically washing itself.

So I, again, I’m getting a huge tax credit. I give a huge deduction. I have very little income that’s coming in off of it. So I’m getting a big first year benefit. And yes, there’s a lot of people starting to do those now. And I think that creative syndicators are going to get into that area.

How Many Rental Properties Do You Need to Retire?

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How can I continue getting bank loans for my buy and hold properties? The banks will not count rental income until it’s full two years of tax returns, which is almost three years of ownership. If I keep buying five units per year, my debt to income would be too high to qualify very soon. I have good W2 income and earn a good amount of cashflow.

But the bank sees me as having less and less income. Every time I buy a new unit until it’s seasoned, even though the reality is I’m increasing my income, your net worth is over half a million. I think you should probably look to investigate more scalable investments. That way you don’t have to do anything.

You don’t even have to put any debt in your name, private placements and syndications. You can get more information at that on my ultimate guide, it’s simple. Passive cashflow.com/syndications. But to summarize here, this is kind of a moot point. I’ll just say from my experience, I had 11 rental properties and I had one or two evictions a year and some kind of big issue that came up like in a basement or a tree fell on my house, maybe four times a year with that many rental properties.

Normally I’d cashflow two or $300 a month on each of those rentals. So we’re talking about 2,500 $3,500 of cashflow a year. Not bad, right? I mean, I’m not complaining, but let’s face it. A lot of us two or $3,000 a year is not enough for you to quit your day job or be financially free. You’re going to need to triple that number.

So if you’re going to triple that amount of rentals, you can get up to 20 or 30 of those things. Now you’re talking about an eviction every other month and some kind of big catastrophe that happens every other week. Pretty much. And you’re starting to realize how this is becoming quickly, not scalable.