Imagine you and a group of friends decide to go invest together in an old apartment building sitting on a hill overlooking a growing city. You’re the ‘sweat equity’ partner, the one with the blueprint, the contractor contacts, and the late nights coordinating repairs and improvements. Your friends are quiet investors who chipped in most of the money, trusting you to turn that building into a cash-generating machine. Think about this: when the rent checks start arriving and, y

At Pinions Principal Partners, we value your investment and understand the commitment you are making when you are considering an investment with us. If you’re considering investing in a real estate syndication, these are a non-exhaustive list of REI terms we believe you should understand before wiring a single dollar. It is our aim to assist you, as a sophisticated investor, by providing our knowledge and skills during your assessment of investments to build passive income. L

It's tax season, so we are thinking a lot in the Rapp home about our tax responsibility, and ways to reduce our taxable income through this next year. Do you have those same conversations or thoughts in your home? Enter: Cost Segregation! What is Cost Segregation (CS)? CS is a tax strategy that reduces your taxable income when investing in certain asset classes, based on the deprecation of that asset. CS separates certain aspects of a multifamily asset (think appliances, elec