If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

Generally your hours working at BP as a W-2 employee would not be part of RE professional hours unfortunately.For those who are RE professionals, gain on sale of rental real estate is still capital gains and still avoids self employment taxes just the same for those tho are not REPS so there is no downside to being a REP in the example you provided Scott. 

After reading this thread, a few comments come to mind over this common A or B decision.Without knowing how much it is (no need to say) makes my advice (or more accurately, my opinion) more general in nature but here it goes:Lending has very little to no tax shelters whereas buy and hold does.

Outside the walls of my home, in the general public, I can't think of a single instance in my half century on the planet where having a firearm would have changed a situation or where I found myself in a situation that I could not walk/run away from to avoid conflict altogether.

As per my original post, I think the parents are generally well meaning and just want to help their children.

Generally most of us aren't going to go through the guilty party's profile and take down everything that qualifies because it takes a lot of time and effort, and most threads have an extremely short shelf life - no one is going to remember it or see it a couple of days from now.

Quote from @Michael Smythe: @Marcus Gonzalez you'll need a general contractor with accurate numbers.With no experience, you'll probably need 25-30% down for a spec home construction loan. 

Can I go straight through the secretary of state?

If they are married/related yes, combining incomes to reach the goal is generally acceptable. 

., generally speaking, every North East Atlanta suburban market will be tough to find and acquire cash flow deals (especially with current rates).