In NC, your sales may be considered personal property since a MH, unless explicitly declared and recorded as permanent, are personal property (like an automobile) and financing and sales rules are not like selling a residence.

And do your IRS declaration.  

However you are supposed to declare those expenses each year when you file even if you are not deducting yet.

If I buy the house in California under a LLC, would the house be protected if I personally get sued or if I ever declare bankruptcy? 

This tenant declared bankruptcy which stayed the first writ of possession that I got.

Unless he has granted a POA prior to his dementia, or a judge has declared him incompetent and appointed a conservator, you will hit a dead end even if you locate him.

All of the income is declared on my taxes, however. 

I've only done commercial RE renos with a 'plugged-in' architect and 'connected' expeditors.Even though it's under the clean image of Fulop, the muscle memory and the seedy institutions that make it the most corrupt city in the history of the United States live on indefinitely.  

Texas law allows a landlord to declare the property abandoned but does not clearly define abandonment or the timetable thereof.

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