We are incorporating more rent to own type transactions in our business so I am particularly interested in seeing how that will play out.I am a little unclear about why so many investors are thinking that this is the beginning of the end for rent to own deals, especially when the Dodd-Frank stuff has to do with LENDING to owner occupants and loan originations.

I look forward to when my business school asks me for money again and i will ask them if they incorporated any of that "dirty, boring, not really investing" real estate investing into the curriculum yet.

There are reasons other than liability concerns for placing properties into incorporated entities [Note: I cannot speak to LLCs specifically as I have no experience with them].

We did the Articles of incorporation, Operating Agreement, filing, etc ourselves, BUT (and it's a big but), before we filed, we ran it through a lawyer who charged us $150 just to browse over it and make sure it all looked good.

If you have a negative cash flow before depreciation, then you have a liability for your DTI calculation.For most lenders, this is how rental income is incorporated into DTI.

@Mohammad ForoHave a chat with your accountant before doing anything.Here in Canada, it is fairly common to incorporate a dedicated holding company for the sole purpose of holding a larger property.

I imagine many large brokerages are incorporated and have a legally registered name that ends with "Inc," "Corp," or "Corporation."

I wonder if I would be fine doing my first wholesale deal without being incorporated.

I figured to avoid that do one deal n incorporate...this was my reasoning behind incorporating early..is this and issue at all in the beginning..is there's cut off to the amount of deals that can be done

Do you have this incorporated in your lease or just verbal?