The marketing and approach will be very different for these 2 distinct populations.Not sure you will get a university to endorse private housing, but you could establish a brand and market via the University's newspaper, radio, bulletin boards, etc.

If you find 10 unsecured in a row...that probably gives you a flavor of whats to come.2.

No annual filings or fees, low initial fees, no additional taxes, charging order only, and no distinction between single member and multi-member for piercing purposes.

this preys on people who have money, but their credit isn't good enough to get a bank involved).LTOs pay all taxes, insurance, utilities, and maintenance ($$$).LTO's pay market rent at a minimum, often slightly higher than market ($$$$$).LTO's receive none of the tax benefits of home ownership, because they don't own it ... they are waiting out the clock, and trying not to violate the terms of their agreement until they own it.I won't even attempt to get into all the different flavors of shadiness that investors will paint themselves to obtain property to sell LTO, that's a whole different rant.In this situation, the owner (real estate investor or otherwise) gets all the benefits.  

Specifically,"FinCEN intends the proposed regulations to reflect the distinction between a seller-financed transaction (which typically involves family members or friends in a one-time transaction) and a person that is primarily engaged in the mortgage finance business but for business reasons or changes in markets, competition or other factors, conducts relatively few transactions within a given period."

There are different flavors of appreciation, and not all of them are speculative.

It would be better if it was a fourplex, so you would have some income left from the other units.Appreciation usually comes in two "flavors:".

@Dan Acampora , Give us a flavor of one of the recent ones!

Appreciation (capital gains) come in 2 flavors, forced and market.

You treading on thin ice here by intermingling your distinct LLCs.