I recently spoke to a CPA with real estate experience and they have an added bonus of being a financial advisor which can certainly be helpful to me. 

Using Facebook lead forms can streamline information collection.Door-to-Door Sticky-Note DeliveryI hired a woman to deliver my sticky notes, paying per piece delivered and offering a nice bonus for every home I purchased from the sticky notes.

That's six months of free rent (thanks to the tax-payers and a government that loves to be generous with other people's money). 

I like to keep it simple and depreciation/tax advantages are just a bonus.

If a primary residence is converted to a long-term rental property, can bonus depreciation still be claimed in the first year?

And a bonus tip, get black out shades and mention them prominently.

You could pursue a syndication with bonus depreciation to offset the gains. 

Once you depreciate a property one way, I don't think you can make changes once the ball is rolling ... especially if you cost seg and bonus depreciate.

You are about 3-5 years early for this question.Unless you already have some other serious reasons to start with asset protection, maybe you are filthy rich, or have partners, in which case free advice from a public forum might not be the best for you (and asking about Zen business for LLC creation tells me it’s not the case).Another 2¢ bonus for you: - LLC as asset-holding entities are pass-through disregarded entities, with little to none tax benefits.

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