At my last meeting, I met an investor who has loaned money to friends to buy real estate.  

Each closed sale symbolizes more than a mere transaction; the median sale price stands tall at $640,000, marking an impressive 11.30% surge from the previous year.

Every time a tenant moves out, they don’t pay their last month’s rent.

I'm aware of those scams and I verify all employment by looking up the employer and calling or visiting them (last one would be for an extreme case, calling and internet sluething is good enough).

Plans to were announced last month to invest $2B into the cities airport in anticipation of the population/business travel growth. 

Buy in a market / area were there has been consistent appreciation over the the last 10 years. 2020-2021 it seems like everywhere appreciated and be discerning of that data. 

I just bought my first investment property last year and am going through the process of transferring ownership to the LLC we formulated.

I really like your last comment though, seem you have the correct mindset. 

I think our last set of plans took 5-6 months approval time (this may have gone down now). - Construction is more expensive.

From the single-member LLC, i pay myself 100k last year to max out on the solo 401k contribution, while still having a W-2 as an engineer as my main job.my main job pays me 170k/year (Google)my single-member LLC rental pays me 100k/year (as S-corp structure)my question is regards to the payroll tax, i know I already max-ed out on the payroll tax on the employee side, any additional payroll side as employee will be refunded in my tax return, how about the employer side.