There are times, dealing with truly just bad people, that makes me wonder why I do this to begin with.I always go back to my "why", listen to motivational audio book, or journal about my struggles.

I used the Intention Journal last quarter and achieved some great results with achieving 3 goals in 90 days.

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2) within my market, what are the key information sources (business journals, clubs, orgs, etc)?

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Even the Journal of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs recommends using it to simplify your taxes now and going forward.

They want you to do a lot of Journal Entries.  

I would advise sitting down and trying to write a journal of every interaction you have had with the landlord to date, and update it as things move forward.  

This will be a liability account called "Unearned Profit Distributions" or something like that.Then, at the end of the year, when the actual taxable profits of the child LLC are finally known, you make one journal entry to debit that liability account and credit a revenue account for only what is being reported to you on the K-1.So the books for the parent company will look like this:January thru Dec, monthly entry:Cash - Debit $100Unearned Profit Distributions - credit $100.So on December 30, you have $1200 in the cash account and a $1200 balance in Unearned Profit Distributions (the liability account).Then, in March when you get your K-1, you find out that your taxable profits (maybe due to depreciation or whatever) were only $1000.So on 12/31, you do the following journal entry:Unearned Profit Distributions - Debit $1200.00 (to zero the account out for the year)Member Draws (an equity account in the parent company) - Credit $200.00 (This will be the difference between what you drew and what is reported as income from the K-1)Revenue from Child LLC - Credit $1000.00 (This should match the K-1)When doing your tax return for the parent, you won't really do it on form 1065 of the partnership, you'll just report all of the child K-1s on form 8825, line 20.

The CPA can guide you on your REI journal and (legally) keep the government's hand away from your wallet.