The Commercial Real Estate Investor's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Road Map to Financial Wealth

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Atlantic Publishing Company, 2007 - Business & Economics - 288 pages

You can now discover how to make money investing in commercial buildings, warehouses, apartments, mobile home parks, shopping centers, hotels, and other commercial income property. This comprehensive book provides invaluable information about how to identify opportunities, determine property value, acquire, finance, and manage commercial real estate. This book is a must-have for beginning investors, real estate veterans, commercial brokers, sellers, and buyers.

Real estate investing has created more millionaires than any other investment vehicle in this country. This comprehensive step-by-step proven program shows beginners and seasoned veterans alike the ins and outs of commercial real estate investing. This book is a road map to successful investing in real estate. You do not need to re-invent the wheel, and you won't have to make the same mistakes others have.

Investing in real estate is one of the safest and smartest investments you can make. Real estate appreciates at a rate far greater than the rate of inflation, builds equity, provides a steady return on investment, provides cash flow, and can offer substantial tax benefits. This new exhaustively researched book will arm you with hundreds of innovative ideas that you can put to use right away. This book gives you the proven strategies and actual case studies from experts to help you invest better and wiser with less time and effort.

A sampling of what is covered in this encyclopedic book includes: how to find below-market deals, how to invest with little or no down payment, how to obtain seller financing, and how to conduct foreclosures and REOs. Once you have found your investment property, you will know how to negotiate, how to make purchase offers, how to manage a rental property, and how to flip. These terms will become part of your everyday vocabulary: auction, tax sales, financing, mortgage, agent, cash flow, inspection, contract, tenant, lease agreement, insurance, taxes, accounting, and escrow. Also included is information on development, taxation, and exchange rules and regulations.

This book is loaded with case studies and success stories--from real people--as well as essential mathematical calculations and sample forms. You will uncover secrets that expert real estate investors use every day. This comprehensive resource contains a wealth of modern tips and strategies for getting started in this very lucrative area. This book is the foundation for understanding how to invest in real estate.

Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

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Page 228 - If an exchange would be within the provisions of subsection (b), (1), (2), (3), or (5) of this section if it were not for the fact that the property received in exchange consists not only of property permitted by such paragraph to be received without the recognition of gain, but also of other property or money...
Page 228 - ... in the case of the property so converted, decreased in the amount of any money received by the taxpayer which was not expended in accordance with the provisions of law (applicable to the year in which such conversion was made...
Page 227 - ... HELD FOR PRODUCTIVE USE OR INVESTMENT (a) Nonrecognition of gain or loss from exchanges solely in kind (1) In general No gain or loss shall be recognized on the exchange of property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment...
Page 228 - ... where as part of the consideration to the taxpayer another party to the exchange assumed a liability of the taxpayer or acquired from the taxpayer property subject to a liability, such assumption or acquisition (in the amount of the liability) shall be considered as money received by the taxpayer on the exchange . (e) Exchanges of livestock of different sexes.
Page 228 - ... shall be allocated between the properties (other than money) received, and for the purpose of the allocation there shall be assigned to such other property an amount equivalent to its fair market value at the date of the exchange.
Page 228 - In exchange consists not only of property permitted by such paragraph to be received without the recognition of gain, but also of other property or money, then the gain, If any, to the recipient shall be recognized, but In an amount not In excess of the sum of such money and the fair market value of such other property.
Page 228 - ... (e) Loss from Exchanges Not Solely in- Kind. If an exchange would be within the provisions of sub-section (b) (1) to (5), inclusive, of this section if it were not for the fact that the property received in exchange consists not only of property permitted by such...
Page 228 - ... of the property exchanged, decreased in the amount of any money received by the taxpayer and increased in the amount of gain or decreased in the amount of loss to the taxpayer that was recognized upon such exchange under the law applicable to the year in which the exchange was made.
Page 230 - For purposes of this subsection, the term "related person" means any person bearing a relationship to the taxpayer described in section 267(b) or 707(b)(1). (4) Treatment of certain transactions This section shall not apply to any exchange which is part of a transaction (or series of transactions) structured to avoid the purposes of this subsection.
Page 229 - ... neither the exchange nor such disposition had as one of its principal purposes the avoidance of Federal income tax. (3) Related person. For purposes of this subsection, the term 'related person...

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Steven D. Fisher is an independent writer, illustrator, and instructional designer with over 25 years of experience in the fields of business writing and training and development. His specialties include the design and writing of books, certification tests, e-Books, manuals, seminars and workshops. In addition to practical âeoereal worldâe experience, he holds an M.A. in Education of the Hearing Impaired and trained as a print and media Broadcast Specialist in the U.S. Army.