In many cases, the utilities are for the entire building (and difficult to split by unit), which is a case for incorporating into the rent amount.

@James Krahula in order to refine your math a little bit you should incorporate fees into the stock market investment assumptions.

I am a numbers person with renovation experience however, educated in corporate business, finance and economics.

Perhaps you can even incorporate this into your VA in-house training program. 

However, if you have incorporated your rentals, you will need to speak with your CPA about your business tax liability.

This would help me understand it so I can make better investment decisions next time by incorporating the trust rate into my P/L analysis. 

Sorry for bumping an extremely old post, hopefully someone can answer the question for me though--When putting a business name on a card, is it essential to have that business incorporated?

To qualify for the intrastate offering exemption, your company must: * be incorporated in the state where it is offering the securities; * carry out a significant amount of its business in that state; and * make offers and sales only to residents of that state.

., coax, fiber) using my contractor (in part so it's done to my standards), including wire(s) to the roof (for your satellite).I'd also trench and bury several conduits (with pull ropes and/or coax and/or fiber and/or etc.) from the building out to the easement area (near pole or box, etc.).You then have the option to choose which provider(s) you want to work with/allow into your building, while controlling the onsite infrastructure and without giving up easements or exclusivity.If you're up to the task and want to recoup your investment and later profit from it, serve as a re-seller to your tenants... watch how fast they make good on it once their TV/internet is cut off.  

You can incorporate in another state and file what they call a "foreign LLC" in Washington if they have atrocious asset protection laws there.