We have been doing it based on square feet, but the ADU consumes way less water than what that would actually calculate to (the main house has a backyard, more people, etc).

There are thousands of pages on consumer protection laws and regulations that depending how you go about doing a subject to could be against these laws and regulations. so like most things - is itillegal - it depends.  

And the consumer is spending this holiday season.

Quote from @Jaycee Greene: it all depends on the credit scores, but consumer mortgages tend to have lower interest rates than commercial loans.

Continuous participation.This is great if you are talking about an SMB with effectively connected Real Estate.Note rental activity is considered passive unless you meet the RE Pro threshold of 750 hours and more than 1/2 your time.This is the conundrum for passive real estate investors.If you have a full-time job or a large, time-consuming business it can be difficult or impossible to qualify.A huge loss from depreciation if you have one LP investment isn’t going to do anything for you.

Name brand is overrated, I get almost all of my consumables from Costco. 

I know the market likes to front run.The trump trade to some is definitive trade on some form of hyperinflation, and a consumer discretionary increase via reduced taxes, yet higher costs. 

STOP blindly regurgitating whatever media you consume.

(I remember when my dad bought some books from Amazon.com in 1996 or 1997; he wasn’t a pioneer, but he was a fairly early adopter, and immediately recognized the consumer value that Amazon brought.) 

CA's Secretary of State forms list the name and address of either a manager or member, so unless you're hiring a third party to serve as manager of your LLC, anonymity is very hard to achieve once filing publicly in CA.As to the probate part, you're right that going through a court probate is a huge hassle, including being expensive and time consuming.