The simple maneuver of converting your personal residence to a rental property brings with it many tax rules, mostly good when you know how they work. The first question that arises when you convert a personal residence into a rental is how to determine the...
You must consider the vacation home rules when you rent a bedroom in your home and also use it personally, or rent your beach home (or any other home you own) and also use it personally. Personal Use of the Dwelling Rent or use by relatives. Personal use...
Under the trade or business rule, your rental property profits can create the deduction. And now, under an alternative rule, you can use the newly created IRS safe harbor to make your rentals qualify for the deduction. When you meet the new safe-harbor rules, the IRS...
The first good news is that you can be both real estate investor and real estate dealer with respect to your real estate portfolio. The next good news is that you are in control, and by knowing just a few rules about dealer and investor classifications, you can do...
Today’s tax law puts your income and deductions into three separate buckets for tax purposes. Each bucket has its own rules and regulations. These are the three buckets: active, passive and portfolio. A real estate rental is automatically in the passive bucket if you...
