So don't plan on that in the near future unless you hit the jackpot of real estate. 

Very liberating to flesh out the plan in writing.  

I'm under the impression that the rents are slightly under market value, and WA is a very liberal state, so I'm anticipating minimum wage increases statewide (I had that thought before I read Brandon's article).

Well I think I kind of hit the jackpot...One month into a new rental purchase, I have to bite the bullet for a new roof, a subterranean termite treatment and a drywood termite fumigation.Property has a flat roof, traditional 2 ply asphalt, with multiple patching over the years, I know the roof is near the end of it's life, and may even been living on borrowed time.When we inspected the property there was just so much leaves on the roof, that it was holding up a "mat" of leaves sitting there for years and with the south florida rain and sun, those leaves have turned into compost. 

Louis where there is much more "liberal tenant/buyer thinking".Watch out who you listen to in the internet forms, so many experts from years past are still in the last century of scam operations.

But I live in a liberal state and you don't know how the courts will rule.

Louis is, if not the most liberal areas in Missouri it is one of most liberal, that means more consumer oriented courts, much more so than Springfield.There is nothing more dangerous than older real estate investors doing business as was done 20 or even 10 years ago, welcome to the 21st century, things have changed and many don't keep up.

For a business owner with $100,000 taxable annual income, the net tax savings for using an S Corporation instead of an LLC in taxes paidevery year can be as high as $7,500.Holding PropertiesWhen holding properties as a cash flow investor, the LLC (or LP) is generally the better choice because an LLC has more liberal distribution rules.

Three of those have required about 30% upfront and the last one I was able to negotiate a 20% upfront and 40% upon full finishing with a payment in the middle at 75% progress which I decide fairly "liberally".Like any contractor, I had my issues with quality and timing but the retention of  funds always made the discussion cordial and allowed me to reach good resolution.I can provide a couple of contacts offline.

I would want to see the proof of what you are saying”Almost immediately, we received another email, this time from Charles Sells, one of the principles of PIP Group, with an obviously angry tone: “The claims and clearly one-sided liberal views (of your article) stink of a clear lack of any sort of accuracy related to the industry and certainly that of PIP.