@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.

However, I'm looking to change that, and part of that is starting to become an active member on these here forums.Right now I work as a web designer and developer, but I'm branching out into some blogging and thinking about some freelance graphic design.I have a couple goals when it comes to real estate: I want to diversify from a completely stock market based investment strategy.

Of course they incorporated a pitch for a three day intensive training, but nothing too far out of line.

California costs $800 per year to incorporate to a LLC while states like Nevada and Delaware, etc are much cheaper.

Stay in corporate America.

How are you writing-up the addendum to the lease, what terms are you incorporating into the addendum about paying back the balance of the rent?