Increase Your Profits and Lower Your Tax Bill with Tax Loopholes for Every Investor The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes reveals all the best and most effective tax loopholes that successful real estate investors use to maximize their profits. Completely updated with over fifty percent new material, this Revised Edition also covers all the new tax laws, and features new and updated case studies and examples. Real estate is probably the best investment money can buy, in part because there are so many profit-maximizing tax loopholes that directly benefit real estate investors. In this practical and straightforward real estate classic, bestselling authors Kennedy and de Roos show investors how to increase their investment profits and use real estate as a legal tax shelter. Inside, you'll find practical guidance and trustworthy advice on: * Tax loopholes that turn your home into a profit center * Tricks for using your vacation home as a tax-savings investment * Real estate investment strategies for taking advantage of international tax laws * Creative cash flow techniques for increasing your investment's profitability * How to cut taxes through the 1031 tax-free exchange, pension funds, real estate loss deductions, homestead exemptions, and joint tenancies * Real estate pitfalls and how to avoid them * And much more

This guide from bestselling real estate authors de Roos and Kennedy shows you how to use tax-free retirement funds to invest in real estate. Using real estate IRAs, you can combine the tax benefits of retirement funds with the high rates of appreciation in the real estate market, growing your retirement investments by leaps and bounds. This handy book shows you how.

The Loopholes of Real Estate reveals the tax and legal strategies used by the rich for generations to acquire and benefit from real estate investments. Clearly written, The Loopholes of Real Estate shows you how to open tax loopholes for your benefit and close legal loopholes for your protection.

A real estate guide unlike any other, The Insider's Guide to 52Homes in 52 Weeks is the true story of a seemingly impossibleinvesting challenge and the two investors who pulled it off--all toprove that you can do it too. Successful real estate investors Dolf de Roos and Gene Burns wantedto show skeptical investors that there are always great deals to befound. So they set out to buy fifty-two homes in just one year. Notonly did they succeed, they did it in less than ten months andearned a lot of money in the process! Tracing this ten-month realestate adventure in depth and detail, The Insider's Guide to 52Homes in 52 Weeks explains the authors' strategies and techniquesfor acquiring almost any property in any market. Inside, you'llfind step-by-step guidance on: * Finding the perfect market to invest in * Designing your strategy and getting started * Making your first deal * Finding the help you need to succeed * Changing strategies midstream * Networking to find new leads and opportunities * And much more Combining unbeatable investing guidance with firsthand accounts ofreal deals, The Insider's Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks armsinvestors with a diverse mix of strategies and tactics that willturn every real estate deal into a moneymaker.

Updated and revised to include ten years of new developments in real estate investment, Real Estate Finance and Investment Manual, Ninth Edition is the definitive guide to financing for all real estate investors. Understand all the financing options, learn how to choose an appropriate strategy, read about insider techniques, and get hands-on experience with case studies and helpful checklists.

Dolf de Roos’s Commercial Real Estate Investing reveals all the differences between residential and commercial investing and shows you how to make a bundle. De Roos explores the different sectors—retail, office space, industrial, hospitality, or specialist—to help you discover which is right for you. He shares key insights on finding tenants and avoiding vacancies, financing large investments, managing property, setting a tax-smart corporate structure, and take full advantage of tax breaks.

By the author of the bestselling guide, "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Cash Flow... " (McGraw-Hill, 2004) Develop a command of the essential formulas and concepts that underlie income-property investing: * Capitalization Rate * Net Operating Income * Present Value * Debt Coverage Ratio * Internal Rate of Return and much more Here Gallinelli revisits the 37 key metrics from his "Cash Flow" book and guides you through examples that will lead you to mastery of those concepts. He then takes you beyond those formulas to the next level, with detailed case studies of four different properties: * Single-Family Rental * Renovation Project * Apartment Building * Strip Shopping Center You'll analyze these properties with him and learn to look behind the numbers, to think like a successful investor and to recognize both the opportunities and the perils you might encounter when you invest in real estate. Frank Gallinelli is the founder and President of RealData, Inc., one of the real estate industry's leading software firms since 1982. He has written several books and numerous articles on real estate investing, and teaches income-property analysis in Columbia University's Master of Science in Real Estate Development program.