The people that run these companies usually come from an "investment banking", real estate, or construction background.

Remember, the notion of amassing wealth without investing is a dangerous myth perpetuated by self-proclaimed experts.

With over 20 years of experience as a mortgage expert and real estate investment veteran, we leverage our mortgage company to secure below-market financing for our clients, ensuring maximum value and profitability.

There are over 300k people in the greater Amarillo area so a cool event space like this could be very successful.

I live in a community where half the people never lock their doors.

Unfortunately, people in the trades are often good at their trade but poor at managing their business.

It'll be confusing in the short term, I think people assume it's inflationary.

But the rental too does have to meet the "active conduct of a trade or business" threshold, which does mean you wouldn't qualify to use section 179 if you have a rental that is managed entirely by someone else and you aren't at least overseeing it and making decisions about the management of it.I mostly disagree with the reply suggesting that you need to have an LLC to take the section 179 deduction. 

Try to build a company around the people, not build the people around the company. 

Take the effort to solicit contractor recommendations from multiple people.