Date Submitted: Nov 24, 2009 - 4:48:50 AM
Summary: Lease abstraction is an essential component of due diligence for a multi-tenant commercial property. Lease terms often vary from tenant to tenant. Lease terms and options impact both the quantity and quality of rental income.

Date Submitted: Nov 16, 2009 - 1:17:47 AM
Summary: The amortized cost of your tenant improvements will be the cost over the term of your lease. To keep matters simple, if you are spending $60,000 to renovate your space, and your lease term is five years (60 months), include $1000 per month for the cost of tenant improvements. The actual cost will be higher to reflect the time value of money.

Date Submitted: Nov 5, 2009 - 10:30:04 PM
Summary: For many homeowners, the property tax appeal process can seem too difficult and therefore only about 8% appeal even though 70% of those who do appeal are successful. Most homeowners also do not realize that their appeal can be resolved at the informal hearing.

Date Submitted: Oct 28, 2009 - 5:39:17 AM
Summary: The term of the lease is often a complicated and contentious issue. You want a very short initial term and a huge number of renewal options. An outrageous extreme of this would be a one-day lease with 3649 one-day renewal options.

Date Submitted: Oct 12, 2009 - 1:38:23 AM
Summary: Cost segregation is simply an accurate way to allocate the cost basis of real estate and establish a depreciation schedule. The real estate depreciation schedule is often established by allocating a portion of the cost basis to land and allocating the balance to a long term depreciation recovery period (27.5 or 39-yr straight-line depreciation).

Date Submitted: Sep 30, 2009 - 5:04:57 AM
Summary: The income approach is often given primary emphasis when appraising a commercial real estate used to generate income. Estimates of value via the income approach are highly sensitive to changes in revenue, expense and capitalization rates.

Date Submitted: Sep 23, 2009 - 1:25:48 AM
Summary: Although 75% of property tax appeals are successful and save homeowners an average of $450, only 7% of homeowners appeal annually. Research indicates five primary reasons homeowners do not appeal:

Date Submitted: Sep 14, 2009 - 6:10:52 AM
Summary: Business valuations are performed using methodology similar to the process for real estate appraisals. However in business valuation, the data sources are different. Further, there are nuances in the form of analysis.

Date Submitted: Sep 4, 2009 - 1:15:31 AM
Summary: Selecting an apartment should be fairly simple at this point. You started with a list of thousands of apartments. You narrow the list by selecting location, rental rate, unit type and amenities.

Date Submitted: Aug 27, 2009 - 12:17:52 AM
Summary: Tax reduction and tax deferral are the primary benefits of obtaining a cost segregation study. Tax reduction occurs since more income is taxed at the capital gains rate instead of the ordinary income rate. Tax deferral occurs since depreciation is accurately taken in the early years of ownership.