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IRS insider Sandy Botkin reveals the tax strategies you can use to increase your ROIs by as much as 20 percent-whether you're a home owner or a real estate investor. This accessible guide demystifies real estate taxes and shows how to achieve maximum benefit when buying, owning, selling, managing, repairing, and investing in properties.

Features numerous forms, charts, sample documents, and other valuable tax-saving tools
Gives you the basics on real estate taxes and shows how to take full advantage of tax loopholes

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Author:	Sandy Botkin
Paperback:	224 pages
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill
Publication Date:	October 13, 2006
ISBN:	0071472355
Package Length:	9.0 inches
Package Width:	7.3 inches
Package Height:	0.7 inches
Package Weight:	0.85 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 5 reviews

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0 of 5 found the following review helpful:

How to Rip off Readers Jul 23, 2007
This book is not worth the paper it is printed on. Very poor structure. Badly written in such a way that the Secrets remain so. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

3 of 12 found the following review helpful:

It's all in the details. Mar 17, 2007
Well written to those that want an introduction into real estate investments and provides some reasonable tax savings tips that do not appear in other tax related books. Using the example on page 98, I figure the gain net return on investment to be 4.5% instead of 31%. I used different assumptions. My assumptions are based on the following: I used $6,027 in buying closing costs. I figured fair rental value as 90% of (5% down, 30 year mortgage at current interest rate) or $1,135 per month. I figured a $45 taxable loss on the sale of the land and building since closing costs and recaptured depreciation offset gain. I figured a $5,736 loss on schedule E before I realized that hiring a property management company means that I cannot take the tax loss on Schedule E. Most of the loss was due to $4,879 in depreciation. I figured the cash flow to be a negative $1,859 for the year since I had lowered the rental income projection and added the property management fee.

11 of 13 found the following review helpful:

Hundreds of Tax Tips re Real Estate Mar 13, 2007
It should come as no surprise to you that the Federal Income Taxes are horribly confusing. They contain all kinds of special loopholds, private benefits, bureaucratic rulings and whatever that it's very difficult to follow.

This book takes one small subset of the tax code, that pertaining to real estate and pointing out literally hundreds of rulings that you probably never expected. For instance -- Interest on mortages for your home, both principal home and second home is deductable. But. What's a home? A place that 'provides basic living accommodations such as a sleeping place, a toilet, and cooking facilities.' Does your motor home, travel trailer, or boat provide such accommodations? Yes, then it's a home. What if you rent it out some of the time? She provides the IRS rulings.

The book is well written, not difficult to follow, and almost certainly can enable you to find enough deductions to cover it's fairly low cost.

4 of 6 found the following review helpful:

Excellent Book for Anyone that Touches Real Estate and Investments Feb 01, 2007
Sandy Botkin has presented a very clear analysis of the tax advantages around owning real estate. Real Estate Tax Secrets of the Rich is an excellent tool for any financial and real estate professional (CPA, CFP, Mortgage Advisors, Realtors, etc)that counsels and advises property owners and investors. I intend to make this book available for my clients as well.

6 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Amazing tax benefits laid out in easy to understand language and examples! Dec 20, 2006
If you are a real estate investor, or, better yet, if you are thinking about investing in real estate, read this book before you buy your first property!
You will be glad you did. Proper tax planning can yield you so much more money in the short and long term than you can imagine. Sandy lays out all the details in simple language and easy to understand examples. This book is worth its weight in gold! If you are new to real esate investing I also recommend that you read "Investing in Real Estate - 5'th Edition" by Gary Eldred & Andrew Mclean