I have watched her grow her business since the beginning stages.

I work a W-2 day job and have my own electrical business.

This is why so many companies are leaving states like California.Pro-business environment: Companies want to focus on their core business, not fight anti-business policies.Significant infrastructure: Companies favor cities with substantial airports, freeway systems connecting to other cities, and more.

Quote from @Gregory Wilson: A few things there, Brendan.First, an LLC with you as a member and your (wife, son, pal, etc.) partner as a 1% member will file a Form 1065 which is about one tenth as likely to be audited by the IRS as a Form 1040 with a Schedule E rental activity (which I presume you will attempt to show is an active business).Second, you want an LLC because when your local Alabama handyman drives his girlfriend's uninsured truck into a van load of U of A medical school interns on I-22 when he goes  to get some shingles for your roof, on your business, you don't lose everything you have or ever will have to an uninsured claim. 

., They will be instrumental to your business. 

I don't Atlanta is too landlord friendly and the demographics shift it harder to do business everyday.  

Years in business?

With 25 years under my belt in construction and corporate environments, this is not the way you do business.

Even as a broker there are many sleazy Account Executives that try to win my business with terms or extra compensation.

It's always important to screen anyone you are doing business with.