Giving is wonderful and to be commended but do it through a charity or to where people need help. 

But, he said that single member LLCs do not offer great protection and so to make it multimember I can have an irrevocable trust own 1% with a charity as the beneficiary since I don't want relatives to be involved. 

@Jay Hinrichs your new logo looks like a potential prototype for Hillary in 2020NOpe just raising money as a charity to put a first responder into a home free and clear.. and hoping all these successful real estate folks on BP will join in on the mission.. that's my BP mission going forward..

Consider a CRT - all gains on sale are tax free and can take withdraws until death which then gets donated to a charity of her choice.

We’re not running a charity.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Metropolitan Ministries or a charity of your choice.

@Darius Ogloza I don’t have title insurance because it was a title that was uninsurable from a charity I bought and the people had died.

@John ReelIf this potential mentor is genuinely doing well at their business, their goal for this meeting is to find how you can contribute to that business.Unless this mentorship is a charity (<1% chance) you will have to add value to this relationship.Ask questions such as.What are we in the business of doing?

Yes, of course there is a cost for such, there not a charity, but for those properties seller won't take terms, and it's worth it, well it can be worth it. 

I'm not a charity - I'm trying to feed my family - and these folks have access to the same opportunities that I have, if they're willing to do the work of educating themselves.