We know that investing in real estate means building a business that incorporates the right investment strategy, tax & legal plan, financing, retirement planning, insurance & estate planning. 

Let me know what thoughts/reactions you have here, and I will incorporate into my more detailed blog publication coming in a few weeks.

We closed the LLC because it was not giving us protection since the properties and mortgages are under our names instead of the LLC, so it was extra work and cost for no benefitQuestions:1-I assume we need to issue 1099 for these contractors even though we are not incorporated, right?

I love the story of your artist friend, honestly it never came to mind to incorporate the two together for a marketing hook!

However my incorporation company is pressing me to do the CTA.

At the time, it never occurred to me that if you want to swindle people it is difficult and expensive to take legal action against a company that is incorporated in a different state than where they do business.

A huge number of properties we have looked at would have issues on this front.It can lead to an opportunity to improve the value of a property if you can buy it with an illegal area, get that area legalised and then sell on with a higher value that the bank would lend against, but it's not clear cut and it seems though that there are almost two levels of 'legalisation' - we were able to register all of the annex on the plans and could fully incorporate a portion of it but there is another portion that is too close to the back boundary wall that should only be used for things like storage and not ever for habitation. 2) During the purchase process be careful, amongst other issues with this property we had the situation where the seller's lawyer was not actually a lawyer (having been struck off).

No need for management LLC's, LLC's in WY, DE or any of the other states that are inaccurately deemed to be better for incorporation.

Incorporate what if you die, what if you or a partner want to sell how do you value, opening bank accounts, contract signing, etc.  

I had some luck in real estate groups and by sharing success stories, but the pace was slower compared to paid ads or SEO methods.One thing I recently explored was incorporating tools like those for Social Media Posts using AI.