"The preamble does discuss, however, two requirements for taxpayers to consider, derived from case law addressing trades or businesses under Sec. 162.

If the LLC is the employer, which it is since that is where the income is derived, then all eligible employee/owners of the LLC must be provided with equal benefits under the SEP.There {could} be ways you could restructure your participation in future deals to segregate income to your own business.  

Out of curiosity how many of you know how a credit score is actually derived?

What's happened to the culture of thinking and debating if we are quoting someone whose "legal" opinion is tied to income derived from such opinion.Can we at least agree to question the source of this opinion and advice?  

The structure surrounding the derived opening bid is set by statute. 

I have a quad that has a 3/2.5, 1/2, 1/1, and studio each assigned a unique percentage that I derived trying to be fair as I could.  

(most of my income will derive from the project).

Keeping your private lenders whithin state usury laws and or deriving a means to protect them in an instance of a slightly over usury loan is an element that is necessary and often, appreciated.Usurious or not, the key factor in any private loan is to ALWAYS pay them back and on time.

And is there a place to find stats like that or is that derived from other numbers?

Its an analysis derived by the mortgage industry to sell you a mortgage.The asset itself is a liability because it does not cash flow and can be lost in court either by civil lawsuit or bankruptcy.