The main challenge I see is to convince the seller that you are a good, well organized investor, who will take all the burden off of them, giving them regular guaranteed monthly payments, while they continue to receive all the tax benefits of ownership, during the term.

Most of the investors here seem to advise to just read all the posts, read books, get organized, discover the type of investing you are most comfortable with, focus on that - and dive in!

There's also lots of material here in various posts, though it may make more sense if you take the time to buy or borrow a book on "pre foreclosure investing" that presents everything in an organized manner.

Compared with the S-Corp, the LLC is a more informal organization, does not issue stock and does not have the same rigorous standard for corporate maintenance.

If the concept is new, your best hope is venture capital-- and they are going to take a large percentage of ownership, not just passively provide money.If you've got a really good idea and the well organized schedule of how it is going to be implimented, you should be able to get the money.

Like a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system I can organize my contacts and my communication in a way that makes sense to me rather than having to search the forum for something that I think might have been said by someone.Most people do seem to be using the profile section to provide a description of what they do.

The best thing to do is to join your local real estate investors organization.

I am assuming from what you wrote that he has already organized a bank loan for the development and is looking for investors to meet the extra cash requirements?

From an SEO standpoint an external blog does almost nothing other than potentially offer some back-links.So moving the blog to an external site might work well for people that do not have a website or do not need/want to improve their organic search rankings.But in my case that is a large portion of why I have a blog.

I do believe that belonging to a professional organization is vital to any business.