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7 Best Real Estate Syndication Tax Benefits

April 8, 2022 By ESI 3 Comments

As most of you know, I sold my rental properties last year and invested a good portion of those proceeds into real estate syndication deals. For background what transpired, see these posts: Why and How I Sold Most of My Rental Properties Why and How I Sold My Last Rental Property  My Real Estate Syndication Investing Journey  At the time of this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Invest, Real Estate, Taxes

Do Roth Conversions Satisfy Required Minimum Distributions?

August 7, 2020 By ESI 16 Comments

In Seven Steps to Creating Passive Income through Dividend Investing a couple readers got into a discussion. It began with this comment: I’m almost 75 and therefore taking annual RMD’s. One strategy I’m using is to transfer stocks, which are down by the largest percentage, from my regular IRA to my Roth IRA. This should allow them to now grow tax free and also satisfies my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Retirement, Taxes

The Pros, Cons, and Alternatives of a 1031 Exchange

November 16, 2019 By ESI 10 Comments

I have been considering various options for my real estate investments. My preference would be to buy more rental units, but both markets I'd consider (where my current places are in Grand Rapids, Michigan or my current city of Colorado Springs) are waaaaaaay over-priced IMO. And I'm more of a value buyer when it comes to real estate. I could just call it quits and sell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Invest, Real Estate, Taxes

The Advantages of Using a Donor-Advised Fund

October 23, 2019 By ESI 20 Comments

I've talked about giving several times on ESI Money. It's been an important part of our lives, and since this site is about what we did to become financially independent and retire early, it makes sense that giving is covered like the other issues. To be more specific, even while we were saving for financial independence, we were also donating 26% of our gross income to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Giving, Taxes

I Got a Call from the IRS: They Are Suing Me!

September 29, 2017 By ESI 36 Comments

I have a policy that I never answer my cell phone if I don't know who's calling me. If a call is actually from someone I know, they'll leave a message and I'll get back to them. But 9 times out of 10 it's a tele-marketer or scammer of some sort. So why bother answering? It can't lead to anything good, right? The IRS Calls Me I got a call a couple months ago that I … [Read more...]

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An Investment Gone Bad

September 27, 2017 By ESI 25 Comments

This site often seems like a brag-fest to me. Many of the posts are about how I did this well or did that well. Of course, I have had my successes and they are worth learning from. But as we've seen now and then, I've also made a lot of mistakes. Fortunately these have been limited in number and not that large. But they do happen and are just as worthwhile to learn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Invest, Taxes

My Income Tax Preparation Process

February 17, 2017 By ESI 12 Comments

I am knee deep in tax stuff this time of year. How about you? Are you done with taxes or do you still have them left to complete? I thought I'd take a break from the mind-numbing work to share how I prepare for mine. As you probably know, I use a CPA to do the hard work. And I have some good reasons why I do. The highlights of my process: I track EVERY expense and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Taxes

Big Tax Savings due to Early Retirement

February 1, 2017 By ESI 27 Comments

Now that I'm retired, lots of things have changed, of course. One of them I have been expecting is the taxes I will pay. Not only am I earning about one-third of my former income each year, but I'm not doing it from earned income. On the tax-paying side, I won't have a job deducting income taxes for me, so there are implications there as well. To get a head start on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Retirement, Taxes

More Reasons to Use a CPA for Taxes

May 26, 2016 By ESI 2 Comments

More reasons to use a CPA for taxes

One thing I love about running a blog is the great comments. ESI Money already has several readers who have left numerous insightful and helpful comments. Their thoughts posted on this site are a blessing to me. One such comment was left on my post titled Why I Use a CPA to Do My Taxes. It offered both great advice as well as the personal experience of an expert, two things … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Taxes

What I Did with My Tax Refund

May 19, 2016 By ESI 7 Comments

How I spent my tax refund

Now that tax time is over, we can all step back a bit and relax. Even though I use a CPA to do my taxes, it's a stressful and busy time for me. I can't imagine how bad it is for people with complicated taxes who do their own returns. Ugh. Anyway, I thought we'd talk about a "fun" tax topic today -- tax returns. I know getting one is not the objective (after all, who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Taxes

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