by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Renters and Renting, Taxes
Do you rent out real estate in Arizona? Are you a landlord with tenants in a former or second home in the Phoenix metropolitan area? If so, the government has imposed a new, controversial and burdensome tax requirement that will increase your record keeping duties...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Renters and Renting
If you buy and fix up older homes to sell or hold as a rental, it just got a lot more difficult and expensive. New federal regulations effective in April of this year (the “New Lead Rules”), now require professional remediation techniques when even a...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 6, 2015 | Home Buying, Renters and Renting
In 2011 I wrote about the advantage of buying a home over renting one. It was based on a report of the greater Phoenix area prepared by local analyst Fletcher Wilcox of Grand Canyon Title in 2010. It analyzed whether it was cheaper to pay rent or pay a mortgage on a...