Quote from @Kevin Akers: Quote from @Brittany Minocchi: Can you qualify full doc (meaning with employment history, income, DTI, tax returns)?

We have record employment, all of our retail is booming, housing is still selling.

If you ARE occupying, you'll need to be able to qualify using your income, employment history and DTI.

Are there any employers driving jobs creation downtown?

I had capital and employment and properties from the start.

Additionally, due to limited capital and the desire to minimize risk in a new country (for us) we employed a Master Lease strategy.

Institutional lenders will look at your non/short employement as a negative. 

At some point, if your business takes off, the single member LLC gives you optionality to move to an S Corp (which typically means less self employment taxes). 

And what your prior occupation was/is  do you have monthly retirement pay from a W 2.Or are you self employed your whole life and the only one that is going to help you in retirement is yourself.. ??? 

.- Plan: apply this rate to pass-through and self-employment business income.