Doing prohibited transactions with the ease of a check book is there.- The main issue is that you can't add more funds, as in a $5k contribution annually, without disolving the LLC funding and re-registering the LLC.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that he could use quantitative easing to control long-term interest rates.

We look at the value of the underlying collateral, the likelihood/ease of getting the property back, the State laws for the market, condition of collateral, ease of sale, etc to price.

(This will limit buying power in some cases)Bernanke is talking like quantitative easing is ending (This is what has been keeping the interest rates so artificially low).With all of these major changes in the air it's hard to predict.

I flew out to meet a couple of them and that helped a bit to ease my mind about who I might be buying from.

This might be enough of a gray area to ease their fears of the DOS being called.I WILL make it clear, though, that this does not eliminate any and all risk regarding DOS.

Multi-family properties can ease the impact of losing a single tenant, so that is part of the reason I invest in multi-family.Others complain about repairs and maintenance eating them alive.

My purpose for using clearnow is ease and convenience of getting rent deposits.  

There are people in every market who are willing to trade their equity for the speed and ease of the transaction.

I think the rental market in Westport is the key factor, however, because the ease of finding something better (and cheaper) will have a big impact on whether they will move.