But the bottom line for tax reform (a la the Fair Tax) is to fundamentally do away with the tremendous drag that our government places on wealth creation to fund its offerings, rather than to place the burden on consumption.

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This creation of passive income allowed me the financial freedom to grow my real estate business and find secure footing in the new economy.

Since Im mainly involved on the financing end I would look at the after repair value (ARV) of the construction, permits/softcosts, holding costs, land acquisition costs, and etc to make sure you have sufficient margin or safety for profit if you need to sell or equity if you need to refinance or take out that construction loan so you can hold.I would always recommend multiple exit strategies prepared in advance so you arent forced to take any specific route.Generally Land acquisition costs are 10-20% of project cost but in areas where the ARV is 300-400 persqft or higher you can pay a higher cost for land and still make your intended equity creation (if you intend to refi) or profit margin (if you intend to sell). 

I am looking for books that kids would not read for fun or be assigned through school, which could include money management, investing, business, self-improvement, etc.I am planning a program for my children to get them reading and thinking about wealth creation, personal finance, and so on.

I was going to offer you my wealth creation advice for $3500 but I just gave it to you for free!!!

There are a lot of great options out there; aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. all of the other tools in addition to their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

I am about to start with my first rental and will continue to build more rentals in the coming years but I want to get the correct entity set up for me and my goals. I have been doing a lot of research on LLC's and wh...

The numbers doesn't lie, less jobs creation= slow economy.

New agents on the residential side usually drive first time home buyers all over creation spinning wheels and give up 50% to the brokerage until the split gets better.