Two main reasons being: (1) debt does not increase your basis in an S Corp, which means your losses get limited.

The other option for value add is to do it yourself by approaching potential sellers directly via the phone, snail mail, or knocking on doors on main street USA.

The idea of purposely burning down the home came to me.

But I noted that places like North Tonawanda as @Pravit Jarriyapurttipong mentioned are actually outside of Erie County, it's in Niagara County, which follows the stricter landlord laws as New York State... https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/changes-in-nys-rent-la...Would you recommend sticking to Erie County boundaries for this purpose?

Hi,The purpose of this post is to connect with anyone interested/actively investing in the Portuguese Real Estate market. 

Principal balance currently at 314kProperty Details: It's essentially a "2-in-1" property, with the main unit rented out for $1,900/month and an attached ADU bringing in an additional $1,200/month.

I'd done some reading in the past and thought a few of the main Canadian banks had such specialty trust divisions that could help you with plan setup.As for finding investments, networking with other investors, real estate agents, etc. is the way to go.Brian, from what I've heard is that CAN banks  make it extremely difficult to setup. 

This ensures a clean transition of ownership and responsibility for insurance purposes.

I mainly was curious about what legal grounds we have in order to proceed, since the PMA doesn’t specifically state “agent won’t grant criminals unsupervised access to your vacant property”, I figured that was just given!

I mainly invested with them because Brandon Turner was running it.