We have also recently started an LLC, which we use for a small business, but would it be beneficial to try and do this through the business, since the other two properties were secured under our personal name?

Would it be beneficial for me to make this a S Corp?

The land trust is a good idea, but I would get the deed and a assignment of beneficial interest.

The past two weeks have only strengthened my resolve to end all investments in mutual funds and stocks to invest in solely real estate.

You can also buy it in a trust and assign your beneficial interests to an end buyer

They are going back into the market, dumping tons of cash on individual stocks and mutual funds.

This thread speaks volumes of what is wrong and right with the 6% model of real estate sales.Comparing to commission only life insurance and mortgage brokering, there is a conflict of interest.If you only make money with CASH SALE, as an agent in Real Estate sales, and few are getting financed traditionally, then seller financing (sub2, land contracts, seller carrybacks and wraps-AITDs, selling beneficial interests in land trusts, etc.), all these tools that creative financing offers to fix Sellers' problems, well these tools do not help agents TODAY, may be later, but not now.If your model included hourly income rates to fix the problem of this troubled depreciating Buyers' Market, AND you had the skills of creative financing, well, maybe you could create solutions for buyers.An analogy:A whole life insur salesman make 75% comm on one policy (annual premium, with charge backs if the monthly payment is interrupted) OR second carrier offering 45% annual premium comm.If you had to feed your family, which would you sell?

Also, for those who are aware of purchasing property through your retirement accounts (this could be a seperate blog) what a nice option, to be able to buy a discounted piece of real estate with your IRA and having control of it instead of having your money tied into a mutual fund, which you have little control.With this all said, what is your opinion?

Downsides seem to be that 200k doesn't buy a lot of apartment building in most parts of the country, and my sense is that more units would be more beneficial due to economies of scale, especially when out-of-state management is considered.

The offer extends to customers of Washington Mutual Inc., the savings and loan JPMorgan agreed to buy last month, the New York-based bank said today in a statement.