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If the company is closed, it has no assets, so the company is not closed.By "distributed" it sounds like you mean.... given for free... there is a difference... depending on how many owners of the s Corp there is.It is taxable, yes, in complacated ways depending on the details, the entity will make a profit or loss depending on what the transaction would look like, and perhaps the receiver will have to pay taxes... or maybe both.  I think you need to put more info here or assumptions here so you can get a better answer.

One of the smallest types of properties in real estate are mobile homes. They are fairly inexpensive to get into compared to other real estate property types (i.e., single-family homes, apartment buildings, etc). What's great about mobile homes are that they are mobile. They can be attached to land and treated as real property. Or, they can be unattached to land and treated as personal property, just like a car. The taxes on mobile homes are much lower than your traditional single-family homes (as well as the insurance), which reduces costs.

The bank doesn’t have anything to do with the title to the property.The bank makes loans.What you seem to be saying is that you are buying the property with a partner and you want the bank to loan money to an LLC.Why would the bank do that?The bank needs a first lien on the property to secure the loan. Only the owner of the property can give the bank a first lien. That is you and your partner.If you are saying that you want to create a Limited Liability Company (LLC) with you and your partner as the sole owners, and then have the LLC purchase the property, and you want the bank to loan the money to the LLC to purchase the property, then the answer is simple.The bank is the one who makes the decision about loaning money.If the bank is not comfortable loaning money to a company that, by its very nature and name, has no liability for paying it back, beyond foreclosure on the property, then the bank will not loan the money.The bank would prefer that you and your partner borrow the money.That way, if you do not pay it back, the bank will foreclose on the property and sell it at auction and apply the net proceeds to satisfy your loan.And then, the bank will sue you for the remaining balance and get a deficiency judgment against you for the unpaid part of the loan.And that’s why banks will not loan to an LLC, but will loan to the owner of the LLC.Plus, and I don’t want to scare you with this, if you try to pull some stunt to get around this, you are operating in the area that is called “fraud” and you really don’t want to go there.Accept the decision of the bank, and look for a commercial loan, or to private “hard money lenders” to provide the funds.I hope this helps.Good Luck.Michael Lantrip, Author “How To Do A Section 1031 Like Kind Exchange.”

Number one thing is to step back and think objectively talking to your listing agent. Hopefully, you did use an experienced Realtor to help you set the price. If a home is priced correctly, you should expect to have interest and offers early. You may have to wait a while before you get another similar offer. When a home first goes on the market, you get both the people who’ve been looking for possibly weeks or more plus new buyers just starting.If you truly want to get out of the contract talk to a real estate attorney. As a seller contracts really don’t give you much out unless a buyer defaults. If this your homesteaded home, you may be able to avoid being forced to sell but could be held liable for buyers costs and possibly damages. Your home may even be held up from being sold to someone else. If you have a listing agreement, you may be responsible for commissions.Think carefully, then talk to an attorney.

It seems simple, but it's not. It's the old Problem of the Commons. For five years the Grand Boulevard Initiative (Check out the NEW Grand Boulevard Initiative Message Platform!) has been trying to develop a common visions and coordinated municipal policies for recreating The El Camino as an appealing, pedestrian-oriented, New Urban thoroughfare. But El Camino connects 19 cities (and 19 City Councils), each of which makes its own development decisions. One example of the difficulties involved is the Bus Rapid Transit Program (BRT) proposal -- another ambitious initiative that's been percolating for the better part of a decade. Rapid transit sounds great, but the downside is that it will take two lanes away from cars.  These dedicated BRT lanes would come at the cost of some left and right turn lanes, crossings and intersections, and street parking. Businesses worry that a two-year construction project will drive away shoppers and limited stops will make it inconvenient to shop at businesses between stops. Each city gets to make its own decision about the dedicated lanes. So no city wants to make a decision until its neighbors do, because nobody wants to bear all the burden with little benefit; which is what would happen without the approval of all 19 cities. Then there's the fact that all the property is privately-owned, and those owners have owned many of those properties a long time and are making money the way things are today, so why spend more money? What kind of return will they get on that investment if they're still surrounded by mid-century shabbiness? And can the businesses leasing on El Camino afford higher rents resulting from higher owner investment? The area can only support a certain number of Santana Rows. Empty storefronts is worse for everyone than shabby storefronts. Putting pressure on owners to improve their property gets into the murky area of infringing on property rights. Tax incentives for improving properties reduce the money available for providing public services -- needs will increase if the improvements are successful in attracting more people and businesses to the area. Add to all this the fact that as soon as a developer brings a proposal for one of those appealing, pedestrian-oriented, New Urban developments, people complain about traffic, multi-story buildings, population growth, urbanization -- "losing our small town character," although no Silicon Valley city has been a small town since 1950. The bottom line is that, yes, inexorably El Camino will improve because there is no place left to go. But don't hold your breath.

First you’re probably talking about a $25k max ANNUAL loss deduction. The rest carries forward. And that’s for LOSSES. You only have to break even to not pay taxes in a current year. Loss carry forwards and backs offset taxes in FUTURE years.Second, depreciation is the real tax gold mine. Tax reduction without actual expenditure.On top of that, there’s accelerated depreciation.And, many property owners are wealthy from other endeavors which carry their own tax advantages:‘depletion’ for petroleum.depreciation of IP (patents, trademarks and copyrights) for corporations.The tax codes were designed for the very rich who get advantages by being involved in businesses that the average person is not involved in.Consider the ‘value’ of the name Coca Cola, or Facebook. (These ‘values’ are HUGE, in the billions). That value exists because the name is associated with a ‘going concern’ that has its own extraordinary value. But you don’t have to spend any money to derive that value.Nonetheless, it’s depreciable.This is the real value of ‘Branding’. If your name ever hits it big, its depreciability is a gold mine.

One of the reasons cryptocurrencies are as popular as they are and drive a global underground economy, is because they are anonymous, untraceable. Unless you’re dumb enough to convert to any government issued currency there is no trail of profit or loss to declare on any governments taxes.

“In the event of a foreign invasion which could not be stopped, would US officials order the general public to take up arms and defend themselves, and their property? If so, how would that scenario play out?”To begin with, no other country on Earth, or combination of countries, could invade the USA. They lack the logistical outsignNow. That means, they don’t have the ships, aircraft, and supplies to transport and support an expeditionary force of sufficient size. Anyone wanting to invade the USA would need years of preparation, costing double-digit percentages of their GNP and impossible to hide.Second, our Navy is stronger than every other navy on Earth put together. In a set-piece battle of massed fleets, a few ships of the rest of the world’s navies might survive the first day, but not the first night, because our naval aircraft are the only ones that can fly and fight at night. The transports and supply ships of an invasion fleet would present a target that the invaders would have to defend, thus making a set-piece, winner take all battle inevitable.Thirdly, as Ms. Finn points out, we have nuclear weapons. A conventional invasion that somehow, impossibly, seemed to be working, would be met with nuclear strikes, either on the invasion forces themselves or their source countries. As Miyamoto Musashi said, it is false and demeaning to die with a weapon un-drawn, and we wouldn’t.Finally, if somehow, triply impossibly, an invasion force managed to establish itself, then we would resist any and all possible ways. Full mobilization in areas still under our control, guerrilla warfare in areas under enemy control. Universal conscription of all able-bodied adults, either to fight or to support the fighters. The regular armed forces and national guard would be the nucleus of a much bigger emergency-raised force. In occupied areas, veterans would probably be asked to lead local resistance. We have a lot of experience as occupiers fighting against insurgents. We know how to turn that around. It would be awful, but anyone who thinks we would react passively is even more naive than those Americans who thought that Vietnamese, Iraqis, or Afghans would react passively.And then, of course, comes revenge. After we had exterminated the invasion force, we wouldn’t just make peace status quo ante. The invading countries would be made to suffer disproportionately.

One way to look at this is to separate out the various functions, assign market rates to them, and split the equity in the entity itself equally.As an example, let's say that the market rate for a real estate professional is $100,000 annually, and the market rate for interest on a loan is 5% (I'm over-simplifying this greatly in order to make a point, so finance pros please don't jump down my throat.) Let's finally assume that we're going to buy a property that costs $900,000.Following this logic, the two partners form NewCo with each putting in $1 for a 50% share. NewCo now borrows $1,055,000 from partner A, secured by all assets of the company. $900,000 of that is used to buy the building, $100,000 is used to hire partner B for a year, $52,500 is used to pay partner A interest on the loan, and the balance for expenses.After one year, the building is sold for $2,055,000, and the original loan is repaid in full. The profit left in NewCo is thus $1,000,000 which is split 50/50 between the partners.Result?Partner A (as a lender) invested cash and got a market return; Partner B (as a real estate professional) invested expertise and time and got a market salary; both partners invested entrepreneurial efforts in creating NewCo and making it viable (something that required both money and expertise) and got a signNow (and equal) equity-based return.