One or two deals a year, and you'll be dangerous with that license especially since you'd probably be with a broker that wasn't really hands on.

@Paul HitchingsApologies, but I'll answer a question with similar questions: Why would investors taking out subprime loans on 10 Las Vegas condos in 2005 be dangerous? 

If you skip the LLC and remain the beneficiary of your land trust you have not insulated yourself from the dangers associated with your investment.

Sorry, but there is some very bad, dangerous, and uninformed advice here, @Ethan Edwards .

It also looks like a lot of North Sacramento is dangerous. 

You're dangerous man.

I would not invest in any location where the population is stagnant or declining.Crime - People and companies will not move to locations perceived as dangerous.

I put in an all-cash offer last night, intending to refinance next month with a lender that has DSCR-financed 4 other loans of mine.  Just found out today that the lender requires condo buildings to be at least 50% ow...

@Leeor Neh I guess my broader question would be what is the purpose of you putting your name on the deed of the property when it sounds like in substance/economically it is your parent's investment?

Yakov Smirnov still performs just an hour south of you where he tries to warn you first hand of the dangers of the failed soclialist government of the former Soviet Union and why capitalism is so much better.