April 22, 2008
Last week, PMI Group, of private mortgage insurance fame, released its “risk index” rankings for U.S. major metropolitan areas for the 4th quarter of 2007. PMI’s risk index measures the likelihood that housing prices will be lower in two years than they are now. As the map above shows, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and well, pretty [...]
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April 15, 2008
If you didn’t catch the first part of the TwoWiseAcres quick and dirty guide to taxes for the real estate investor, you might want to check it out. In the first part, I walked through reporting income and expenses for rental properties on Schedule E. In this part, I’m going to cover the basics of [...]
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