Because it's still much better than a lot of other options where you don't pay SE tax...

If the property is held over a year it doesn't move to capital gains rates, it is still ordinary.Setting up a company will not increase your eligible deductions.You can use pass through entities to try and limit or avoid SE taxes.

& .... not to scare u away from MEM, not at all, it just seems that SE area is kinda slipping through the cracks (unfortunately) compared to how it was over there abt 10yrs ago .... and from what tiny bit of xp that my fam has with REI, we might not be of much help, but being a born & raised southerner, we can say that many southerners tend want some big ol' sprawls of space around us and come to expect it at them there kindsa higher prices.

No SE taxes.In general: Active income = Corp or LLC taxed as corp.   

Also, we do have deals in KY and in the SE, I'm actually licensed in KY too...

It's not sentence structure per se that gets to me as much as the graphic effect.

I got to thinking about our discussion on how real estate really isn't retail per se....

These se my personal favorites listed in order of my personal preferences.  

Risk is assessed, even if not quantified per se.

Its not necessarily the need to grease a palm per se but the ability to make the deal go down.