Stuff on CL gets buried by corporate apartment listings within an hour.

Ultimate Goal in REI: Enable "simple folk" like ourselves to capitalize on global markets previously available only to multi-national corporate strategies by facilitating affordable, high-yielding property purchases in as many countries as possible around the world (currently researching our expansion to Italy).

I work a full time corporate job, but would like to network with local investors who invest either locally, Bakersfield, or out of state.

This one is for Estates... this one is corporate-owned properties, these are multi-families..."

We always tell him we are going to teach him about buying/selling houses and its exciting to think I could help "set him up" early to think as a real estate investor instead of the typical college student (I.e. corporate world).Ps.

Try Ocwen Financial Corporation as they use to handel VA foreclosures.

Lisa,You are required to be an employee of your C Corp and as such pay yourself a salary once the corporation is able to do so.

These are sold through syndicators to corporates or the 1% types.

Fund investment structures are typically a Limited Partnership or a Limited Liability Corporation.

Unless you elect for your LLC to be taxed as a S or C corporation, its a pass-through entity for tax purposes and owning a property in an LLC has no effect at all on taxes.