So if your goal is to try to maintain the passive nature of real estate activity, it can backfire on you if you are not a real estate professional.If you are a real estate professional, then you're foregoing the favorable treatment for passive income, capital gains, etc anyway, so an S-Corp is a fairly good setup.  

But my position is that the risk/reward equation on Bay Area real estate is not as favorable right now as the opportunity will be in the future.

I'd have to look to commercial side, which so far, I have found the terms to be much less favorable than what I've been getting on the conventional side.Any thoughts?

Both their shares of profit will be smaller than I originally anticipated, but that works in my favor in the end.

If DTI is favorable, it makes sense of using LOC.

If you know that the market is favorable right now, why would you wait if you're sure you have your plan?

Wealthy landlords could find ways to tie up assessments with costly legal knots to delay and fight the taxes levied.Though it appears that economists, politicians, and philosophers throughout history strongly have favored land-based taxation, the landowner lobby in the United States is strong.

The rental laws here do favor residents.

If a buyer does default, PA ( where our property is ) has favorable laws and clear procedures to handle that type of default situation ( not so in all states ) so i can rinse and repeat with little down time.Before I pull the trigger, I thought I would ask the BP Nation to share any advice, anecdotes, or information about their experiences, caveats, and takeaways surrounding installment land contracts.

Send you to a great "explainer of market rents"They will want to sign you up, just ask questions why they are good at what they do.have a map and a red penask what are market rents for a 3 B, 4B, 5Bwhat increases rent, 2 baths vs 1 bathgaragepooletc I've already learned a lot from you here on BP, I  talked to my (ex) Realtor immediately and she called in a favor with a big property manager here.