Nerd Enterprises is a good one to watch.

We have zoning for a reason, to control growth, and keep commercial enterprises separate from residential. 

Those Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSE's) have guidelines that the banks and mortgage companies have to follow if they want the loans they originated to get bought on the secondary market and ultimately sold in mortgage backed security pools. 

Any other private enterprise of yours would need to have a totally separate LLC.

But they were not directly involved but only lent money to the enterprise they said!

If you start that as a new LLC, there may be tax benefits too, as the money moves between your two Enterprises. 

Lawrence Wittels with The Enterprise Law Group.

The majority of people on BP including myself are looking for ways to make money by investing in real estate and have no interest in finding ways to create affordable housing for the poor.That being said, If I wanted to do this I would do the following:Start a non profit organization which focuses on providing low income housing or eliminating homelessness some examples include: Center for Community Change, National Housing Trust, Enterprise Community Partners, National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Alliance to end Homelessness to name a few.I would then write up a proposal similar to a written grant proposal regarding how your non profit would like to bring affordable low income housing to Birmingham Alabama. 

I know there are brilliant investors- but there are also people like myself who simply applied many of the pieces of advice offered by a mentor (as well as here) on a daily basis and had a very, very part time job cash flowing in no time.It really is not a difficult enterprise if you are willing to take and utilize the advice of successful landlords.

He's lending the money from his business, so I'm thinking I would list his name on the trust deed as "Fred Jones, dba Jones Enterprises."