Just curious though, what is the additional benefits that you are alluding to that allows for your mother to form a new LLC and get some form of credit to be used as income supplement?

To form a partnership or sole proprietor business issue him W2?

Good question.I am fairly new to this game, but there looks like a lot of good ideas and opinions on this forum that may help you form a plan.I am also working a plan with a goal like yours.I like option "C" the best.

Give investors voting rights and form a JVor 2.

Companies could actually form a partnership that allowed profits to be split differently than percentage of ownership.

That kind of space costs money and doesn't generate income.This is why developers maximize the income space and minimize the dead space.The topography and soil composition plays a huge part as well.If you have to blast out rock,deal with underground springs,endangered species protestors from lake sand streams,or have hilly topo that is real expensive to get in a buildable state that can kill your profit margin.In Georgia new multifamily builds in the suburbs for class A is about 17 to 25 acres of land and about 250 to 350 units in size.Urban locations are built with more density because of available land space.So you have to determine your land and the surrounding lands highest and best use.Once you know that you can develop a pro-forma in costs and work your way backwards to get a price a developer in that asset class would be for ground up acquisition on that piece of dirt.

Maybe next time I'll form a wholesalers guild.

The third is to form a trust and sell your beneficial interest in teh trust, much like selling teh entity.

City will tell you that you can’t see the bills but your friendly call to the Attorney General will help city clerk to realize she has to provide the bills.So Ron, if your city passes that ordinance, and you have such a sunshine law in your state, then get all the landlords to form a line and request to see the bills.

I've now read several articles/FAQs about that and feel that I have a handle on it.Jon Holdman Will BarnardYou both mentioned an example where I could borrow $50k from my 401k and then form a partnership with my SDIRA to buy a property.