I think what has become clear though is that there are some obvious stand outs on companies... and you have to know what kind of exclusions the warranty will have (galvenized pipes, esbestos, etc), and you have to be a patient person as many times the repair takes a week or longer to facilitate through the warranty.  

First it makes them stand out in a pile of business cards, and it won't let it fold or "wrinkle" in someone's pocket3.

There are obviously attribution rules for these purposes.The "control test" is met for the "majority" of the tax year.The businesses share the same tax year.None of the businesses may be SSTBs [Specified Service Trade or Business].The businesses to be aggregated much satisfy two of the following three factors: They must provide products or services that are the same or customarily offered together;They must share facilities or significant centralized business elements, such as personnel, accounting, legal, manufacturing, purchasing, human resources, or information technology resources; orThe businesses are operated in coordination with, or reliance upon, one or more of the businesses in the aggregated group."

Are you aware that the day your dollar went off the gold standard it became useless except for the fiat value that we attribute to it.

In addition, while I know you are not self-employed if you are self-employed with no full-time employees you may wish to consider opening a Solo 401k instead of a self-directed IRA as it has several advantages over an IRA LLC such as much higher contribution limits, direct checkbook control (i.e. no need to have the account at a specialty trust company), ability to take a 401k loan, exclusion from unrelated debt finance income tax with respect to investment in real estate acquired with non-recourse financing, etc.In addition, please note if you purchase debt-financed real estate with your IRA, unrelated debt finance income tax should apply to the income attributable to debt-financed real estate held by your IRA.

What really seems to stand out for me is the location.

After the initial investment, current interpretations of the prohibited transaction "attribution" rules suggest that a later investment by the IRA under these circumstances would be a prohibited transaction anyway. 

Since I'm not a flipper (more buy and hold), this Schedule C WILL NEVER SEE A PROFIT (despite the company being profitable) because the associated income from the rental properties is reported on Schedule E and the expenses from depreciation associated with tools/phone system, org costs, etc. are all Sch C attributable and not allocable to Sch E.   

Also, if folks are not used to them, maybe it will make the home stand out more...Interested in any thoughts from people with experience in this type of market. 

Personally, I won't ever use it because too many people in the area do and I want my product to stand out.