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- From: smith@navajo.rc.arizona.edu (dennis smith)
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- Subject: Down payment for a rental.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.221220.19658@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:12:20 GMT
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- Can we consider our down payment for a rental property as a second
- mortgage, so we can recover our investment, say in 5-10 years?
-
- Because of zoneing problem we have been asked to put down 40%.
- This way we are losing a lots of bussiness expenses for interest that we
- are not paying. You may say that so what you are going to save the
- interest that you are not paying. Now consider this. If we can pay
- interst to ourselves we can show no net income and therfore we don't
- have to pay both Self Employment and Income taxes. The only tax we have
- to pay is Income tax ( A saving of about 15% on net income due to
- Social security and MediCare). I know that by doing this we will
- decrease our adjusted basis in the property and therefore the chance
- to claim a big lost, but this is not our concern at this time.
-
- 2- How do you treat the principle payments on a loan. I know they are
- not deductable, but do you treat them as income to owner ?. I think this
- is the case since they are not going to be included in expenses then
- they are part of net income.
-