@Fausto Carosella   you have a good piece of wood I can whittle you a gavel as a gift to the court, may be they'll go lighter on you  for filing wrongful liens and financing the sale of real estate outside of settlement, you know, like undisclosed costs of acquisition in connection with the sale that cause the settlement of accounting to be incorrect, an unreported basis for federal taxes and, oh, let me see, financing an option out of compliance with the SAFE Act (now incorporated in Dodd Frank)........hey, mind moving that spittoon away from your leg, I'm not a very good shot spit'n'!   

Any general contractor worth his salt will take your scope and walk the house with you asking specifics and incorporating findings in his or her's bid to you.

I'm a licensed Realtor, although I haven't been practicing as I've been enjoying a stable life in corporate finance; but ready to change gears.I've recently noticed a moderately dilapidated property that doesn't appear (by all standards) to be occupied.

Would it be in my best interest to incorporate( let's say with an LLC)?

(if he wants to control when earnings are repatriated to Canada, then he's looking at incorporating an entity in the U.S.)The best advice for him is to jot down his situation and objectives in point form, then find both and accountant and attorney who have cross-boarder business and real estate experience and spend a few hundred dollars to find an ownership structure which fits his immediate needs, but that will grow with him, or can easily be transformed to meet is longer term objectives without creating a nightmare of taxable events.

I agree the "opportunities" only have a specific chance of succeeding so you would incorporate only the possible value of it succeeding.

Now an LLC that will have multiple-members, a board, shares, etc (setup like a corporation) may pax its own taxes, and therefore folks try to incorporate in Delaware, etc.Start off by creating a single-member LLC in your state, pay the annual certificate fee, get an ITIN from the IRS for that LLC, all on LegalZoom for whatever basic package they charge.

It’s astounding what a year of no snow and super pleasant winters can do to your mind :)My background is in corporate finance – complex financial modeling, valuation and strategic planning i.e. good at all things analytical and do that for a living.

How have you incorporated your significant other into investing?

It's certainly targeted to comparing how California businesses fair to be incorporated under Nevada LLC, and I see where they are coming from.