This applies to C-corps whose source of funding is venture capital or other investors who will become share-holders when their investments are converted to stock.This has nothing to do with real estate, and is especially not applicable if you are a small-time investor (i.e. your investments are worth under $10M). 

These are all very shareholder friendly blue Chip companies that pay nice juicy dividends that if left to compound and grow can snowball to figures unimaginable...These CEOs are much smarter than I will ever be, why not take a piece of the pie and own what they believe in?

It measures how much the shareholders earned for their investment in the company.

If you are investing in a business, and your IRA will not be on title as an owner of the real estate but a shareholder in the company, the transaction is a bit more straightforward.  

Largely misunderstood even by attorneys, a Trust is relatively easy to set up and works very much like an LLC.The Trustee being the managing member and the beneficiaries (the owners of the Trust) the members (the shareholders of the LLC).The big difference with Land Trusts is the privacy feature.

All taxes are passed through to the investors/partners/shareholders.

The rules require the partnership to report to the IRS the name and taxpayer identification number of each partner, including each shareholder of any S corporation that is a partner.Sources; http://www.keytlaw.com/oa/partnership-tax-audit-ag...https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?

My wife and I are members/shareholders so they have allowed us to qualify for loans separately, keeping our credit from being double-burdened.I found it funny how little assets (including cash) played in the conforming loan approval process. 

Neither ATMs nor Kiosks pay taxes nor do they contribute to the economy by buying other economy-supporting chit like food, water, electricity, cars, gas, clothes or luxuries.1ct returns to bank shareholders is not worth closing down branches, imo.

However, some REITs, like all of the ones I formed, also return the depreciation to the shareholders with the required dividends.