When the homeowner dies, the house either (here's where I'm fuzzy) reverts to the lender, or is sold and the proceeds pay off the lender while the estate gets any remainder.So, it could be set up simply as a loan, with whatever distribution she needs.

Use the shot gun technique.

Other than that, the good old credit repair techniques... but most take time.

Just getting my marketing in place and have yet to make my first deal using those techniques.

Have we all forgotten about the “old school” creative real estate investing techniques?...

I am also very successful in the pre-foreclosure arena and will use the same techniques I have learned over the years to seek the best possible deal.

If you run the company as a business with a business checking account and pay for the expenses of the business with the business checking account and simply pay yourself distributions to your personal accounts and handle all of your personal activity separatly, then you have a very good case to be excluded from liability.Personal case.

this is why i'm skeptical of this technique

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To answer the question from phcapital, yes, you do get tax benefits of depreciation with a TIC as well as regular income distributions from rents.As stated earlier, they are ideal for someone who wants to have ownership of larger scale retail centers or office buildings they otherwise would not have access to with the amount of capital you have to invest.The only tricky part about them is the exit, which was also stated earlier.