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More and more investors are using cost segregation studies to accelerate depreciation deductions on their investment properties. What a cost segregation (or "cost seg") study does is it divides the property for accounting purposes into real property (depreciable over 39 years for commercial/27.5 ...

Courtesy of http://www.securitytrustcompany.com/ ( a company I work with out here in DC, MD, and VA)What is an IRA? An IRA is a personal savings plan that gives you tax advantages for setting aside money for retirement. Provided you meet certain income guidelines, a Traditional IRA allows you to ...

Real estate investors have started to combine two approaches to sales of their properties: going, going, gone and defer, defer and die. As investors have seen the length that residential real estate inventory takes to unload from two weeks to upwards of 120 days investors are considering either b...

When must the investor decide to complete an exchange?The decision to exchange must be made prior to closing of the relinquished property. The exchange agreement must be in place and delivered to all parties before the relinquished property transfer of title.Can the proceeds from the sale of the ...