Episodes
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Gain 10X More Real Estate Leads With TV Commercials
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Have you thought about creating a TV commercial for your real estate business? TV commercials help you build an automated marketing channel, target the demographic you want, and they’re not as expensive as you might think!
In this episode, Clint Coons, Esq., of Anderson Business Advisors, welcomes Tony Javier, founder of the Real Estate Masters (REM) 10X TV Program. Clint and Tony discuss the value of advertising on TV where you can reach 10X more people, faster and cheaper with less effort than many other forms of marketing. Tony can help you appear in your own TV ad within 30 days, and he’s proven that people who see you on TV may not want to work with a realtor, and will begin knowing, liking, and trusting you to buy their home.
Highlights/Topics:
- Tony’s entre’ into TV and real estate started with late-night infomercials
- First TV spot earned 10X Tony’s investment
- Go to remtv.com and get on tv within 30 days
- Tony explains who can benefit from a TV spot
- The cost of advertising with TV and your target demographic
- Should you appear in your own TV commercial?
- How many people you can hit with each $5 of ad spend
- Reaching a lower-income audience with TV
- Advertising on TV is easily scalable
- Doing commercials is only for those who know what to do with leads
- Limiting ads in each market
- Check out remtv.com to start planning your TV spot
Resources:
Get Started with the 10X TV Program
Free Asset Protection Workshops
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Do I Have To Pay Capital Gains Tax For Inherited Stocks?
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Welcome to another episode of the Tax Tuesday show. Host Toby Mathis, Esq., joins our regular guest Eliot Thomas, Esq., Manager of Tax Advisors at Anderson Business Advisors, to help answer your questions. We send a big thank you to all our people online answering your questions today - Patty, Dana, Dutch, Jared, Kurt, Ross, Tanya, and Troy.
On today’s episode, Eliot and Toby answer listener questions including inquiries about wash sales, what taxes apply to inherited stocks and real estate and the appreciation on inherited real estate, buying vehicles and how much is deductible and when, and setting up a brokerage account for a charity so it can receive donations of stock.
If you have a tax-related question for us, submit it to taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.
Highlights/Topics:
- If I have a company and want to loan money to another company using a promissory note, but I don’t want to charge them interest to do so, are there any tax impacts to my company? What is the recommended way to do this if so? – if it’s over $10,000 we got to charge interest to what it boils down to.
- Do you need to pay both capital gain tax and estate tax for inherited stocks? – Well, typically, if you inherit something, you're not going to pay any tax because of the approximately $12 million lifetime exclusion. If the gift or inheritance was over $12 million, in this case, you're going to receive stocks at stepped-up basis.
- Does real estate appreciation restart for 30 years after inheritance? Will real estate appreciation be re-depreciated? – I think what they’re trying to get to here is will you be able to depreciate again at 27 and a half years if it’s a long-term rental and yes, you will.
- I have an IRA owned single-member LLC that has invested in three syndications. Two of the three have losses over the last several years, which means it’s just kicking down passive losses, it doesn’t mean you lost money. One was sold last year and has profit, which is fairly common. Do you use a 990T to report both losses and profits? I don’t have to report profits or losses on my 1040, correct? - You don’t have to report it on your 1040 because it’s all in your retirement plan.
- Does the holding period for real estate start on the acquired date or the place in-service date? If bought in November 2020 and placed in service, placed in service March 2021, sold December 2021, is this long-term or short-term capital gains? - It’s going to be long-term. We’re going to go from the date where you closed, that’s where the holding period starts.
- When will we recoup the loss from a wash-sale if we’re no longer investing? - We wouldn’t run into a wash-sale in this instance because you sold the stock, you take your loss, it’s only if you buy back stock or a similar security that you would run in a foul of the wash rule within 30 days of it.
- When bonus depreciation goes away, what will be the process for cost segregation? How is it calculated and how much will be allowed to be deducted at what time or intervals? - we still can do cost segregation which is just an alternative, We’re still going to deduct it. It’s just how much is going to go into that 5-year property pile, the 7, the 10, 27.5.
- I have a 501(c)(3) that I started with Anderson—Kareem and his team are killing it by the way. It is ridiculous. The average wait time to get a nonprofit exemption certificate approved by the IRS is right around seven to nine months. We’ve been getting them, in some cases, in a matter of days. I was wondering if you were to donate appreciated stock to the charity, how to donate that to the charity properly and how do you record it as a personal donation, with appreciation? Does the charity need to start a brokerage account to receive this stock? – We certainly want to set up a brokerage account in the charity because when it receives that stock, they’ll have a place to put it.
- Should I set up a C-Corp LLC for land flipping business even if I just started, no deals yet? Should I start with the pass-through first then change to a C-Corp once I get more volume? – I would set that C-Corp so you can start building up losses and expenses in that C-Corp. When you flip it and you have that gain come in, you're automatically offsetting against that gain.
- When you buy a bigger van for the business, do you depreciate it or show it as an expense on the year you buy? Where do I find a list of business expenses that are 100% deductible and other expenses are not? – Well first of all for the van itself, how you're going to depreciate depends of course on the size if it’s over 6,000 pounds, etcetera. You probably got bonus depreciation a lot more of it. It may not be 100% anymore, but we probably solved the 80% going on.
- Is there a maximum number of LLCs that I can use for the IRC-280A deduction? I have two LLCs and I was wondering if I can take the deduction for both? Also, I have a nonprofit and was wondering if I could also have meetings for a nonprofit and the fee for using the space would be a donation from my LLC? - Well, 280A is a provision, it actually comes under a section that is dedicated to not letting you deduct personal expenses in your house particularly. – if you donate $10,000 to your nonprofit, is that the nonprofit can use it for nonprofit purposes.
- How do adjusted gross income AGI levels affect capital gains? Is it true that AGI below $76,000 will pay no capital gains? - Actually, AGI doesn’t have anything to do with this. It’s taxable income when we talk about the brackets for capital gains. The $76,000 is an old number. It’s approximately $83,000 I think this year.
- I’m opening a new IRA that will be managed by an IRA with custody TD Ameritrade, it will be funding a new IRA from existing IRAs, so it sounds like a rollover from the same custodian. I have a Wyoming LLC Anderson just set up. Should I open the new IRA in the name of the LLC and will it be a problem moving funds from a personal IRA that is titled with my name? - You can roll one over into the other, but what caught my attention was this Wyoming LLC- you can't just have that connected to a retirement plan. Your IRA needs to set up its own LLC that it owns, and then it can transfer funds into that LLC and go do investing in real estate or what have you. But you do not want to take some other outside LLC that we set up for you and connect that with your IRA, we’re not allowed to do that.
- Rapid-fire chat questions answered at the end of the show
Resources:
taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.com
Tax and Asset Protection Events
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
http://aba.link/youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@TobyMathis
https://www.tiktok.com/@tobymathisesq
Friday Mar 31, 2023
The Fed Broke The Banks - Is Real Estate Safe?
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
In this episode, Toby Mathis, Esq. of Anderson Business Advisors welcomes Neal Bawa back to the show for his third appearance. Neal is the founder and CEO of Grocapitus, a commercial real estate investment company, and CEO of MultifamilyU, an apartment investing education company.
Neal walks us through the realities we’re facing in the economy right now, discussing the Silicon Valley Bank failure, the Fed and interest rates, the bond and mortgage markets, and when and where to look for real estate bargains in the latter half of 2023.
Highlights/Topics:
- The Fed poisoned the banking system by flooding it with cheap money
- The bond problems are not the same as 2008
- Preventing bank runs that will domino other banks failing
- Reduction of bank liquidity reduces business activity
- Price stability and the banking system
- FDIC and the Fed dumping cash into banks
- Twitter creates bank runs in hours, not days
- Western states are down from peak in mid-2022
- One full percent cut in interest rates will start real estate price reductions
- Real estate sectors suffering post covid – offices, hotels
- Q3 is a good time to buy, with extensions
- The ‘spread’ and when mortgages might drop
- Big banks will get the deposits when smaller banks fail
- The next 6 months are a good time for bargains
Resources:
https://www.grocapitus.com/
https://multifamilyu.com/
Listen to Neal’s July 2020 appearance
https://andersonadvisors.com/podcast/real-estate-investing-with-analytics/
Listen to Neal’s Oct 2022 “2023 Housing Market Forecast” appearance
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2023-housing-market-forecast-why-real-estate-will-remain/id1446273914?i=1000579549992
https://andersonadvisors.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX5nh607M8hSBLiMB9MgbIQ
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
The Most Effective Software For Real Estate Investors (Close More Deals!)
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
In this episode, Clint Coons, Esq., of Anderson Business Advisors, welcomes Sharad Mehta, founder and CEO of REsimpli, and full-time real estate investor. Sharad has done over 400 deals in the last 6 years since he started investing full-time. He grew frustrated by how many software systems he needed to run his business and decided there had to be a better way, and REsimpli was born. Sharad is now able to manage 3-4 rehabs a month remotely using REsimpli. Click this link to head over to REsimpli.
REsimpli is an all-in-one software for real estate investors that requires no customization. You simply sign up and start using it in under 1 minute. Everything you need to run a successful business is already built in.
Clint and Sharad discuss who can benefit from using REsimpli, how consistent, ongoing marketing (in whatever channel you are comfortable with) is the way successful real estate investors find more leads and close more deals, and how follow-up using the REsimpli platform can keep your leads at your fingertips, whenever they may be ready to sell.
Highlights/Topics:
- Sharad’s background and his flipping success
- Who can benefit? Investors interested in off-market properties
- Four components to the REsimpli platform:
- Data
- Marketing
- Sales - converting leads in CRM software
- Operations
- How to start reaching out to leads on off-market properties
- Running reports, automating follow-up sequences
- Sharad’s global team of assistants and their responsibilities
- How the REsimpli platform helps to follow up on leads
- Tracking rentals, communicating with tenants
- The best marketing channel is the one you’ll stick with the longest
- Where to find the best lists, then give your marketing efforts at least 6 months
- How much time and investment is required to get started with REsimpli?
- Starting with allocation of your dollars
- If you can’t commit to working the system, don’t bother - you need to put in the effort
- Contact REsimpli with questions or inquiries
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharad-mehta-resimpli/
https://resimpli.com/anderson/
Free Asset Protection Workshops
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5GX-U6VbvMkhSM1ONBiW8w
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
How To Protect Your Money From The Bank Crisis
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
How can you protect yourself from bank failures and uncertain foreclosures? There is a lot of confusion around the current crisis, resulting in misinformation leaking to the masses and inciting panic among those who rely on said banks.
In this episode, Toby Mathis, Esq., of Anderson Business Advisors, is joined by Stefan Whitwell, CFA®, CIPM®, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Whitwell & Co., LLC. Stefan leads this wealth management firm and its investment practices. He is a sought-after advisor who works closely with clients at the intersection of health, wealth, and purpose. Stefan has particular expertise in tax planning and alternative investing.
Toby and Stefan will be going over the facts about the most recent round of bank failures and uncertainty. They’ll explain what questions to ask your bank or custodial firm, how multiple layers of insurance protect your accounts, and other information you need to know to make informed decisions on what to do with your money.
Highlights/Topics:
- Stefan intro
- What happened at Silicon Valley Bank
- What should you do? Separate into two buckets - a bank and a custodian
- Insured custodian accounts
- How banks vs. custodians handle your money
- Money market accounts - low vs high risk
- FDIC, SIPC, and private insurance coverages
- What banks have said about customer’s money- “Don’t worry”
- Unadvertised negotiations to segregate your accounts are available on large bank balances
- Do your homework, or ask your advisor to do the homework on your investments
Resources:
https://whitwelladvisors.com/
https://whitwelladvisors.com/team/stefan-whitwell/
Free Asset Protection Workshops
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@TobyMathis
https://www.tiktok.com/@tobymathisesq
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Small Business Structure - Choosing The Right Structure For Tax Reduction
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Welcome to another episode of the Tax Tuesday show. Host Toby Mathis, Esq., joins our regular guest Eliot Thomas, Esq., Manager of Tax Advisors at Anderson Business Advisors, to help answer your questions. We send a big thank you to all our people online answering your questions today - Troy, Tanya, Sergey, Ross, Kurt, Kenny, Jared, Dutch, Dana, Patty, and Matthew are all on.
On today’s episode, Eliot and Toby answer listener questions including a very detailed question on inheriting rental properties, a question on crypto-currency and taxes, one on hiring and paying your children, and we answer the title question on structuring small businesses using an S-Corp.
If you have a tax-related question for us, submit it to taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.
Highlights/Topics:
- "What is an installment sale on real estate? How do you utilize it within the tax code?" - An installment sale simply means that you're getting payment over more than one year. It could be for two years, it could be for 20.
- "What happens to accumulated depreciation on rental property when the owner passes away? Does the person inheriting the property need to account for depreciation recapture from the deceased owner when you later decide to sell that property? If the person inheriting the property gets a step-up in basis, does that new basis now become the basis to calculate depreciation on if you keep the property? Can the person inheriting the rental property also have a new cost segregation done? And would that be affected by any cost segregation done previously? Any other tax considerations to be aware of when inheriting rental property?" — It goes away. Don’t gift it to your kids before you die! Your new value “step up in basis” is what you calculate from. New cost-seg, yes, nothing relates to the old cost seg.
- "I received a 1099 INT from a bankrupt crypto company I invested with called Celsius." The money on the 1099 never touched my bank account as it is currently locked in a crypto wallet on their website for the last eight months. It was interest from USDC coins I staked, but I left it all in the wallet to reinvest. Am I supposed to pay taxes on this money that I never received, or can I leave it be and ignore it until the bankruptcy is resolved?" – you need to report it and you need to pay tax on it.
- "How does the tax law treat the hiring of children by an LLC? At what age can they be hired? Which circulars discuss this?" - when they're under 18, no Social Security, no Medicare taxes on those, but they must be paid by an LLC that's owned by mom and dad if it's a disregarded LLC or a partnership, and they have to be paid as W-2 employees.
- "I'm using the home office and depreciating part of the house. How will it look on the taxes that the year I sell it?" – I like using the administrative office in the home and having an S-corp, a C-corp, or an LLC taxed as an S-corp or a C-corp, reimbursing me for the value of my space because then I don't have depreciation recapture.
- "Are there any tax deductions for real estate held in a self-directed IRA?” When you see SDIRA, that just stands for self-directed IRA. - you're going to lose out on those big things like depreciation, et cetera, so no tax benefit.
- “I was hit hard with UBIT inside my Roth, where I owed $200,000 on a $400,000 gain. The company is no longer in business, trying to scratch back any part of the UBIT. Is it possible that it happened?”-- It was leveraged. Valerie, this is unrelated debt financed income. Yes, there is something you can do.
- "Can you explain S-corp taxes with shared distribution? When it's time to file taxes, do we pay taxes on all shared distributions?" Do you have to pay taxes on everything you receive or just the profits, et cetera? - An S-corp has two primary ways of getting paid as an owner, shareholder. One would be W-2 wages and the other is all the other income.
- "I started in LLC, C-corp with Anderson advisors on October 22 for real estate. I have paid $20,000-plus in networks, education, probably getting training. I did not do any deals and 2022 for my new real estate business. Can I still write all that off for the business? I have used my personal credit card to make purchases for the new REI business, real estate business. Since I do not have a business credit card, did I break the corporate veil?" – Yes, you can deduct those expenses. They are going to go on your C-corporation. If they were incurred prior to the date of incorporation, there'll be what we call startup costs.
- What org structure for small business is audited the least and provides the lowest tax liability?" – That's going to be your S-corporation, typically. It's going to give you a lot of deductions and reimbursements that you can take advantage of.
- "How do I best utilize my C-corp status for tax savings and investing in real estate? We have my 1099 paycheck going to our C-corp bank account and then pay out about half of it to our personal bank account as a paycheck. How do I utilize the other half that's sitting in the C-corp accounts, such as to buy new short-term rental or long-term rental investment property?" - the C-corporation, before you do the loan, you can take a lot of reimbursements—accountable plan reimbursements, corporate meetings for 280A, medical reimbursements. That all gets some money out to you tax-free deduction to your C-corporation. Get these first, then take a loan.
- Rapid-fire chat questions answered at the end of the show
Resources:
taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.com
Tax and Asset Protection Events
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
http://aba.link/youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@TobyMathis
https://www.tiktok.com/@tobymathisesq
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
In this episode, Clint Coons, Esq., of Anderson Business Advisors, welcomes Jonathan Farber, a successful real estate investor who is helping others achieve financial freedom with Short-term Rentals. Jon currently owns 8 STRs, a 24-unit rental property, and continues to add properties year after year. He is the host of “Millennial Millionaires Through Real Estate” podcast, has amassed over 167K followers between TikTok and Instagram, and he sends a weekly newsletter to nearly 14K contacts.
Clint and Jonathan discuss how Jon decided to opt out of the corporate world at age 21 to create wealth with real estate investing, and how he screens, hires, trains, (and sometimes fires) virtual assistants to help him do all the tasks that he either doesn’t enjoy, isn’t very good at, or simply doesn’t have time for. You can learn exactly how Jon does all this by checking out his extensive content on just about every social media platform.
Highlights/Topics:
- Jonathan’s origin story and how he took a different path than “Corporate America”
- House-hacking at age 21- a great jump start
- Getting into the Short Term Rental market
- Beginning with a VA- choose one task - some people love to do the things you hate
- Delegate more to VAs as your business grows
- Finding off-market deals with VAs
- The process of finding the right VA- Loom videos for screening, “test/screening” emails set up in Gmail
- Training and onboarding VAs - Loom videos of each “repeatable task”
- 10-14 days will show if your new VA can cut it
- Creating content to teach others these systems and methods
- Reach out with a DM to Jonathan on any social platform to learn more
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanfarber1/
https://www.instagram.com/jonjfarb/
https://twitter.com/jonjfarb
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSsPp1_ZwurdZZAKYNo1nw
https://www.tiktok.com/@jonjfarb
Free Asset Protection Workshops
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5GX-U6VbvMkhSM1ONBiW8w
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Should You Put Your Primary Residence In A Trust?
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
It’s Tax Tuesday again, and today we’re mixing it up – this episode is hosted by Anderson Advisors’ Michael Bowman, Esq, who welcomes two of Anderson’s expert tax pros, Eliot Thomas, Esq., and Kurt Bergfjord, Esq. And as always we’ve got our talented and experienced tax advisors manning the chat questions in the office.
On today’s episode, the guys review all the documents and receipts that you should be gathering up in preparation for filing your taxes, and answer multiple listener questions around the pros and cons of C-Corps, S-Corps, Partnerships, and the audit magnet - Sole Proprietorships. The discussion also covers our episode title question - are there benefits to putting your primary residence in a trust - which is really only for asset protection and estate planning - there are no tax benefits to doing so.
If you have a tax-related question for us, submit it to taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.
Highlights/Topics:
- "Even if I show income on my tax return from rental and business activity as a sole proprietorship, and self-employed but no taxable income because I use my large net operating loss to cover all taxes, is my income still considered income or will it be a hindrance as far as getting an investment loan or home equity line?" – It depends - Some are going to look at this, it will ding you, and you won't be able to get a loan. Others will take it into consideration and analyze the tax return.
- "I currently have two LLCs in California that I file as a partnership. Should I create another LLC as a holding for both LLCs? And should that be disregarded or filed as a partnership as well? Of course, there is the additional cost of $800 for California as well. What's your suggestion?" – from the legal point of view, it might be a better idea to have that holding company and all those assets coming into it.
- "How can a full-time LP investor in private equity in real estate syndications as well as stock investor utilizing options for income, structure such as to offset income of these activities with expenses, syndication conferences, to vet sponsors, subscription services, travel for investment briefings, computer equipment, expenses, et cetera? Assets are held in a Wyoming LLC and property trust for the stocks. Would a management C-corp make sense having one ‘client?’ I am aware of people in my circumstances that write off expenses on their schedule C, but I recall Anderson doesn't recommend that." – If we could utilize that management corp, maybe we can capture some of those benefits that you otherwise wouldn't be entitled to.
- "How is REPS applied to a tax return?" – If you are a real estate professional (REP)for all intents and purposes, then you can actually turn that otherwise passive income into non-passive income. I's going to be on Schedule E page one or Schedule E page two if you have a K-1
- "We have seven rental properties set up with the ABA structure. My husband works full-time for the government. I manage our home and rental properties. Two properties are mortgaged, the rest are paid for. Now, both in our 50s, we're financially comfortable with a large cushion. We got retirement funds, mutual funds, properties, kids, education funds, et cetera, but we are getting killed in taxes every year. I feel like we are working to pay taxes. We don't live extravagantly, and still drive the same cars for 10–15 plus years. Taxes feel like a punishment for saving when we were younger." - Ideas to save on taxes include becoming a REP, depreciation, cost-seg study, there's even a nickname- “short-term rental loophole”
- "What are the tax benefits of putting my primary residence in a trust?" There is no asset protection, but if it's in the right kind of revocable trust, then we still get to take advantage of our section 121 of tax exemption from gains on the sale of your primary residence—$250,000 single, $500,000 married filing joint.
- "I want to be as anonymous as possible. What is the best business structure and ways to submit taxes? I do not want the tax info to flow down to my personal taxes." - When we talk about anonymity, anyone looking at your personal tax return is really not going to have too much of a purview into your business activities.
- “Should I do a cost seg for a condo?” It depends - Have you had it for a while? are you a REP? Are you renting it out? Have you been appreciating for a while?
- "What is the best corporate structure to have in place that can also allow for tax savings?" We've covered this - C-corp, S-corp, partnership, and then the worst would be sole proprietorship.
- "What tax incentives are there for real estate investors to not have to pay an absurd amount in taxes?" - REP status, short-term rentals, cost seg studies, 1031 exchange, keep good books!
- "As a real estate investor opening my first LLC, which is the best for me to use, S-corp or C-corp? - it depends - do not put appreciating property in a C-Corp, but C is good for short terms or flips.
- "I started my LLC last year to begin my search for buying a business or real estate. Currently, I am a W-2 employee while I get started. My question is, can I write off any expenses since I did not make any money in my LLC? We've incurred expenses, but I don't have any income.” - was it open for business, or are you in the exploratory phase? timing on when to deduct may be more important.
Resources:
taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.com
Tax and Asset Protection Events
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
How To Make Money In Podcasting
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
In this episode, Toby Mathis, Esq., of Anderson Business Advisors, is joined by Doug Sandler, CEO of Turnkey Podcast Productions. Doug co-founded Turnkey to help individuals build community, grow influence, and make money using podcasting. Doug is the author of Amazon best seller “Nice Guys Finish First,” and hosts his own podcast “Nice Guys on Business.”
Doug and Toby discuss how Doug went from being a highly paid bar mitzvah DJ to a successful podcast coach, who should and should not be trying to monetize their podcast with Doug’s program, and you’ll hear a few success stories of Doug’s former clients who created huge revenue streams using his methods.
Highlights/Topics:
- Promoting his book “Nice Guys Finish First”
- “Podfade” at around episode 10-11, many quit
- Revenue is not going to come from advertising
- The “golden opportunity” is the guest in the guest seat
- Asking questions – interviewer vs. salesperson
- Ideal candidates to create a podcast
- “Lifetime value” of a guest to invite on your podcast
- Monetizing in different time frames and diversifying
- Success stories - Lou Diamond and Stan the Annuity Man
- Working with Doug requires an open mind and blank slate
- Know your “MOM” - Market, Offer, and Message
- 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting – the call to action on today’s show
Resources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-sandler-1a346649/
Free PDF 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting
https://turnkeypodcast.com/toby
https://turnkeypodcast.com/
https://www.niceguysonbusiness.com/
Free Asset Protection Workshops
https://andersonadvisors.com/real-estate-asset-protection-workshop-training/
https://andersonadvisors.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@TobyMathis
https://www.tiktok.com/@tobymathisesq
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Tax Deductions: Are the Expenses for LLC Preparations Deductible?
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
It’s Tax Tuesday again, and Toby Mathis, Esq., hosts, with special guest Eliot Thomas from Anderson Advisors, and they are here to help answer your questions.
On today’s episode, Eliot and Toby answer listener questions including what can be written off as far as expenses for the preparation costs of setting up an LLC, several questions (as usual) around short- and long-term rentals, real estate investments, passive vs. active income connected to your properties, and quite a bit of information about cost segregation – who to work with, what you can deduct, the timelines, etc.
If you have a tax-related question for us, submit it to taxtuesday@andersonadvisors.
Highlights/Topics:
- "If I put a short-term rental in operation in October or November, does the bonus depreciation get prorated accordingly?" We're looking at whether or not we prorate from October November for the rest of the year, or how do we handle that? – It doesn't matter whether you bought it in January or December, you put it into service before the end of the year, not prorated.
- "Useful strategies for pulling money out of a small business tax-free, not being double taxed?" - The only time you ever worry about a double tax is when you have a C-corp because they're taxed at the corporate level.
- "Mileage deduction in a partnership, does this go on a Schedule C?" - No, it doesn't.
- Number four, "Is the expense related to the preparation of your LLC tax deductible such as travel costs to go see a property, et cetera?" – The expense relating to the preparation of your LLC is absolutely deductible. It's going to be an organization expense up to $5000 for the year, and that includes the state fees, the registered agent fees, accounting fees, attorney's fees.
- "Please talk about the $25,000 deduction for real estate investing. Where does it apply and where doesn't it? I have only one rental single-family home at this time." - When you have passive losses, normally, they only offset passive income. One of the exceptions is this $25,000 active participation.
- "How should I set up my taxes on my properties?” – We're looking at an LLC (Limited Liability Company), probably one that's what we call disregarded. Disregarded means it just doesn't file a tax return.
- “I have two rental properties in California I've been managing full-time since 2021. I have been working more than 700 hours per year. Do I qualify for real estate professional status? If so, what is the process at the time of filing the 2022 taxes?" – It's 26 USC 469(c)(7). You can go straight to it. You need to aggregate those two properties as one activity. Otherwise, you have to meet that test for each property.
- "What is cost segregation?" - Cost segregation is a fancy way of saying you're breaking a piece of property that's real estate into its pieces, as opposed to just treating it as one uniform structure. (Picket fence, sidewalk, driveway pavers, new carpet, new appliances, etc.)...you need to do what's called a cost segregation test or report, which is what cost segregation refers to, which means having an accountant pop out to the house, and break these down into their pieces.
- "Is it more beneficial as an LLC owner to pay myself as a W-2 or 1099 employee?" - There's no such thing as a 1099 employee, The correct term is a W-2 employee or a 1099 independent contractor. I would say it depends on how that LLC is taxed. If you are an LLC that's disregarded and your sole proprietorship, you cannot pay yourself a salary.
- "What are some creative ways to save money on the gains from real estate investing?" - Here are some cool ones - (1) The low-lying fruit, 1031 Exchange and you defer the gain. (2) You can also still do this thing called a qualified opportunity zone.
- Lastly, "Hi. How are crypto gains taxed? When? At the time of selling the crypto to convert back to cash? I have been doing short-term trading with my own account. Please advise the best strategies to minimize taxes. My hubby is W-2 and I'm a real estate professional with three rentals. Thank you." – Once you own the crypto, it's when you sell it or when you convert it, or trade it for something else of value. Protect it with a partnership LLC, or put it in a Roth, or deferred retirement account.
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