After having such legal reviews done on several occassions with transactions structured precisely as my example above was, I stand firm.

You are not going to have to replace all 20 furnaces at once so you don’t need to have all that money saved.If you want to be precise, maintain a spreadsheet with all the mechanicals, appliances and big items in the properties, with the associated costs and lifetime expectancy.

Because you can put multiple tables on one page, and precisely control their display, Numbers makes it very easy to create a visually presentable business case presenting, with layers of detail.The table naming feature, and the default variable behavior allow you to refer to data in a file by a predictable naming structure.

This is precisely what I was thinking- My IRA owns the company, the company makes investments. 

Originally posted by "TonyS":It simply gives me title, which gives me permission to control, which gives me permission to sell.......Only a deed gives title -- an option does not give title.I think what's going on here is a semantics issue -- as an attorney I tend to be very precise with my words and don't ascribe meanings to words that they don't actually have -- for example, an option IS binding on the seller during the option period whether the buyer exercises or not, but this is the correct legal terminology and not the way most lay people would describe it.Unfortunately most non-attorneys do not deal in precise, literal, factual, technically correct and accurate language, which is why so many people get themselves in a bind and end up needing attorneys in the first place.That said, no need to beat a dead horse or bang heads -- we're both just trying to help someone out.All the best!

I have a few properties actually- four to be precise, including the one I live in, but they are all traditionally financed by and hold, and acquiring them that way, unless you have an executive's salary, is a long slow process and that's what I want to find alternatives to.

The larger community groups that want someone else to run their lending operations are using either SACU or Precision Capital Funding to do just that for them in states where that solution makes sense.

In fact, the reason that I questioned your advice was PRECISELY because your advice didn't fit the situation.

(BTW, I know some people talk about how if it's 1-4 residential, valuation should be based just on sold comps, but I do like running #s on even 1-4 residential when you're looking to hold because it provides a more precise way of seeing how a property can make money today, without speculating, which is what I feel comps are at times.)

HYPERINFLATION:  Unfortunately theres no precise definition for hyperinflation.