@Capital4Value@MarketPalmer_ Yes, of course they manage the odd repair that comes up which is all pass through to the owner. But there really isn’t any work for a PM to do after the tenant is in place. Paying 10-15% a month of a $3-4k rent is bananas. For what? Depositing the check for you?
Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd has agreed to a new deal with the school, he announced. Arizona’s new five-year deal with Lloyd will make him one of the five highest paid coaches in college basketball, per me and @jeffborzello.
@TimRodocker@MarketPalmer_ How do you keep the PM incentivized to care about your property. $65/mo basically means they will work 2 hours (max) on your property a month. Or else, they make zero.
@Capital4Value@MarketPalmer_ Never waste your time managing a rental home. I pay $65 a door to a manager to do it for me. I have to make about 5 decisions a year. If that…
IRS closed ~440k tax audits in 2024.
Most of the audits are for people making $0-$50,000
Small businesses with lots of deductions, earned income tax credits, etc
Audit risk generally goes down as your income goes up.
If you are buying a business, and you are analyzing cash flow
If a company takes bonus/179 depreciation
You should normalize depreciation to it's economic life instead of showing the full basis
Otherwise cash flows will be understated & really throw off your analysis
I took out a life insurance policy on my neighbor even though I don’t even know their name.
I then used AI to create a fake newspaper and a fake obituary and sent that to the insurance company.
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Why aren’t more people doing this?
All approaches should be considered
Generally the asset approach is the lowest value as it excludes any intangible value of the business
With a going concern premise, and a profitable business that plans to be profitable in the future, the business should have intangible value above & beyond just the worth of the fixed assets
This is always an unsettling feeling in valuation
The market & income approaches are close: Yay!
But the cost approach is not much lower. and the company makes money every year.
The Kicker: The owner upgrades equipment frequently.
You want a mix, tax wise with your investment accounts:
Tax Free: Roth, HSA, 529, etc.
Tax Deferred: Traditional accounts
Taxable: Brokerage account
But... you don't have to contribute to each, each year
There are times throughout your life where one is better than the others
Here's the framework I think through:
- Pretax 401(k): use in your highest income earning years, think 32-37%
- Roth 401(k): use in your lower income earning years, think 12-24%
- mega backdoor Roth 401(k): use whenever you have the funds if you have maxed above
- Roth IRA/backdoor Roth: use after maxing out above every year you can (sometimes it makes sense to do before maxing out above)
- HSA: use and max out when you have an HSA eligible plan. Best of both worlds here with pre-tax deferral, tax free growth and use
- Taxable: use the entire time to build liquidity and another place to pull from in the future
- Cash balance plan: in very, very high earning years
- Deferred comp: in last few years before retirement if you are a very high earner