Any advise on whether to or not to incorporate?

If it wasn't fraud but simple incompetence (and he lost the money), then that isn't a crime and your options are more limited.Your legal contract (and/or the state laws the entity was incorporated in...depending on where) most likely requires the sponsor to share books and records with you (so you can at least know what happened).

Finding STR viable properties and incorporating MTR strategy in slow months is what works best.Crystal Beach is an option as well as Palm Harbor - however a word of caution a lot of Palm Harbor is HOA and I would avoid that as well. 

I am familiar with a couple of CRM options that incorporate sales and marketing.

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I challenge someone to look at rent controlled areas and compare the rent increase in the first few years after incorporating rent control compared to surrounding areas pre rent controlled.  

Avail is absolutely excellent for lease building and e-sign as it incorporates state-specific legal clauses and allows you to modify the lease to your liking. 

Greetings all,We’ve all read methods on how to analyze a real estate deal, running numbers, estimating rehab costs, incorporating taxes, capital expenses, etc.

You can incorporate language into the sales agreement that allows you to form an LLC and take title in that LLC as a closing condition.

He is in Corporate Realty and wanted do some residential real estate.