.  ;-) this stuff will never get to trial.. he will settle.. only way it gets to trial is if they are criminally charged and I sure think that is a distinct possibility give the size of the fraud.. and the nature of the actors.. 

This is different than being a certificate holder & the distinction between certificate holder and additional insured is significant3.

I would make one distinction and that’s between an expense and a capital improvement. 

So there are distinct rules for North Vegas, City of LV, Clark County and Henderson.No homes for sale in Henderson either-there you can have up to 5 homes per person, no bedroom limit,no need to occupy.

“Note investors who think learning from people who scam others out of millions is a good idea and a way to have a good reputation in the space.”I think we have to divide the above into two distinct groups.  

They are two distinctly different things and that's what trips up most lower income housing investors. 

If you've lived in your town or city for 5 or 10 or 20 years, you will know things about it I can never know and thus you have a distinct advantage over me when it comes to investing - you know what a good price is, what a bad neighborhood is, what house looks good on paper but is underneath the airport flight path, and so on. 

Maybe that last point is the distinction and I answered my own question.I imagine that lease options might be another valid exit strategy, in which your tenant has more skin in the game so they take better care of the property.

The distinction between NewCo and traditional brokerages is that agents would be paid hourly, not by commission.

We had a distinct advantage over the one off buyer our title company at the time and their underwriter Fidelity WOULD issue us title insurance upon receipt and redecoration of the Tax Collectors Deed..