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Peighton Woodard Section 8 rental property
8 December 2019 | 6 replies
To their defense now S8 in Houston is on a bi-annual inspection, which should help some.
Patrick Britton Greg Pinneo
22 March 2017 | 9 replies
My HUD statements speak for themselves and I am not here to prove anything but I will stand in Gregs defense that he is the most anti guru teacher I have ever known.
Jojo Joy Series LLC question
3 November 2016 | 10 replies
As of now, I am maintaining an regular LLC to hold my positions in my SFH investments.If I were ever to maintain such a complex structure, my main idea behind it would be to deter any litigation seeing the multi-state structure itself, which at least to my knowledge is the first defense, or probably second, after my insurance. 
Aaron W. Help with unethical plumber
6 May 2020 | 48 replies
He became defensive and said he had to pay bills.
Yulin Wang Out of province or across border?
13 March 2021 | 14 replies
We always target 8% Caps though in good neighbourhoods, building a strong defense against any downturns or interest rate rises.
Scott Radetich When has an LLC actually saved your ASSets?
21 November 2017 | 17 replies
It's not so much to protect you once you got sued (since even with an LLC you'll still have to hire an lawyer and incur defense costs)(plus you can get sued for whatever reason, and you'll still have to pay to defend), but to discourage and make it harder to even start legal action against you, and to make it harder/improbable to collect if it comes to that.Now, looking at those setlements in the mold cases, a small fish hit by that is probably no longer an investor and member here...so I don't think we'll hear any "got sued and lost it all" response, but I still hope a bigger shark might share some from his/her survivor experience and how insurance and PUP/LLC/Series-LLC/Corp/Trust/LandTrusts/EquityStripping protected them.
Sameet Koppikar Is it worth buying real estate through your SDIRA?
7 September 2016 | 49 replies
When you have word for word in writing with a signed and notarized statement versus verbal the protection level tends to be higher.Anything open to interpretation can be challenged by the IRS down the line and people should have a strong defense to prove what they have been doing is allowed and correct.No legal advice given. 
Sung Park Newbie with 1031 questions
2 March 2020 | 17 replies
With the kind of equity you'll have coming out it's also not a bad time to be looking at some defensive investing and allocating your proceeds strategically to lessen your correction exposure. 
Cristian Portillo Stock market is down, is real estate next?
5 May 2020 | 11 replies
The order covers all evictions other than those related to tenant actions that imminently threaten the health or safety of others.González intends to introduce legislation Monday that would allow tenants to use the pandemic as a defense in eviction court.
Scott Graham What is your COLLEGE DEGREE IN!?
30 July 2019 | 262 replies
This was great because I could tell girls at parties I was going to be a rocket scientist...3 years in, switched it over to industrial engineering when it became clear to me that the aerospace industry was dependent on defense contracts and jobs were getting hard to come by.