/snarkI know we like to laugh about the image of the lazy contingency lawyer looking for the low hanging fruit but I can guarantee if you, an employee, a contractor or anyone on the property on your behalf directly or indirectly causes serious injury to the tenant, or God really help you, a child, the existence of an LLC owning properties mortgaged to the hilt will delight the attorney looking to take the case.

Does this guy really want to raise his child in that kind of environment? 

Of course, doing a local drive by with some important papers to give the potential tenant works well.Some people may say I am being devious and wrong (and worse)   My ethics test is ; could look my mother or my child in the eye and tell them what I am doing and not be ashamed?

[Expenses for your real estate business are above the line expenses Whoohoo]Penalties [A cost of doing business]This year’s penalties for not having health insurance — and not having a waiver or exemption — remains the same as 2017: 2.5% of your adjusted gross income, or $695 per adult and $347.50 per child, up to a maximum of $2,085, whichever is higher.The IRS continues to impose the penalty of revoking passports for anyone with serious tax delinquencies, and the threshold for that is $51,000 in tax year 2018.

Industrial RE has been experiencing a resurgence over the last 10 years and has become the darling of the investment community; once the red headed step child of the commercial world industrial has become one of the favorite asset classes of the institutional and local investor alike and unfortunately Portland is in the midst of the "hottest" industrial RE market on record.

One of the guys in top management at Equity Trust talks about starting an SD Roth IRA for his newborn at less than 1 hour old.

I had a child, another tour of active duty, and got imjured on this tour.

Ok so I hired my son to work on my rental , he is 17. Some of what he does is not 1099 work but employee work so we should be withholding taxes and sending to the IRS. can anyone recommend an inexpensive service...

Just so he knows, he can NEVER enter into a 'prohibited transaction' with the SDIRA, which means he can never sell to, buy from, or rent to a 'linear family member' such as a parent, child, child in law, etc....

He went on and on, how we could get 16%-36% ROI and how his team are cracked  experts, experienced, they know how to find the "good ones" and, how its guaranteed safe, safe as newborn tucked in under his mothers bosom (my words not his); you get the point.So, after about an hour of this he went in for the kill.