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

It can seem that the difference between Return on Capital and Return of Capital are non-influential, and we get that sentiment! However, there are important distinctions between the two and how they affect a potential investment that we hope to clarify for you. Return of Capital An investor receives a flow of distributions during the life of the investment, repaying their initial capital investment over time. As the investor receives distributions, their investment value in t

Over the last few years, we’ve heard from friends and colleagues who were desperate to buy a house but faced the ever-growing competition of the housing market, and either contemplated or moved forward with an offer on the house, site-unseen, or once under contract, bypassed the inspection process to close the deal quickly. The desire to have THAT house was stronger than the risk of buying a home that may have significant structural issues or major appliances that would need