My mother's side of the family came through Ellis Island from Finland and contributed greatly to the USA.4) Yes it is really hard on a jobsite to keep it free of illegals, you have to be on your Subs all the time, especially the Hispanic ones as they are more likely to look the other way.

You might be very pleasantly surprised.To conclude, it's great to have more new members like you from Europe contributing to the forum.

There are a number of meetups in Sacramento and we have been coordinating the dates among hosts so that there is no overlap - I run the West Sacramento Meetup that @Ben Howard mentioned (we gather every 4th Tuesday of the month).Here is a list of meetups that we're in collaboration with (they are all based on an abundance mindset that we have here on BP)- 1st Tuesday - REI Connect @ Roseville Meetup (reach out to @Nicole Masters)- 3rd Tuesday - Investor Mixer @ Crawdads on the River- 3rd Thursday - Folsom Out of Bounds (dates may shift a bit)- 3rd or 4th Wednesday - Real Estate Round Table (CH Cafe & Grill) - they recently relaunched and stabilizing the schedule- 4th Tuesday - West Sacramento Real Estate MeetupI'm working on putting together an easy to access list that Sacramento investors can refer to.

There is an exemption for a “crowdfunding” type of retail offering, with limits on how much of their net assets an investor can contribute.  

I am looking forward to learning from and contributing into this incredible network.Best regards!

Knowing what I know now, I will never contribute to Roth; I will only make pre-tax contributions, get maximum tax deductions, invest, and then be selective about which asset I want to convert (such as the one above).  

A great place to both learn and contribute back to those just starting out.....

Looking forward to connecting with you all, and I hope to contribute to the community as much as I learn.Thanks,Hayat

An LLC is potentially one minor factor that might contribute to the evidence that you are running your rental activity as a trade or business, but it's definitely not required that you have an LLC to qualify.

In a service business like property management, your contributions can go unseen at times - so I feel as though value is harder to recognize, so you need to really exceed expectation in order to prove this value!