Be prepared to say I'll have to call you back on that give me a minute, think it over, and then call her back with a yes or no, see if it's what you want to do.  

Long time no see!

If your property gets outdated and you want/need to remodel, be ready to pay through the nose.  

So I can see brokers not wanting to get led around by a nose ring by buyers with little to no experience and limited capital... so they get these agreements signed..

There's no SE tax involved with Schedule E, so it doesn't seem like it should matter which SSN is used.

But the market is definitely more fractured than residential so it is more work.

well....business as usual....if it was EASY...everybody would be doing it....Keep your nose to the grindstone!

If anything it is benign because they chose to live where others would not, and with neighbors that others looked down their noses at.

I don’t want to wait (at 75 years old I can’t afford to wait).it seems as if everything we do has some sort of instant gratification; fast food – the micro wave, drive thru car wash and any information we want immediately with the internet - I want my profit now – I don’t want to wait for appreciation, or to depend on an agent to list my deal and wait for a long time for a suitable contract offer full of contingencies, I don’t want to go through the qualification process – I don’t want my life dependent on some snotty nose bank clerk to approve my loan.

No SE tax.3) You can not pay yourself a salary  (w-2) in an LLC unless you have elected and been approved S-corp status.