Definitely talk with a lender to figure out how to take advantage of your VA benefits. 

So essentially, our own proforma.For capex: we put eyes on the property, assess condition and add budget to interiors in order to get it to where we will get the rents we forecasted in our proforma above. 

This is probably a more complicated measure of seller financing because the real estate can be destroyed and the buyer would back out or the assets would appreciate significantly and the seller would request more money.In the above case - I guess the buyer could buy the rights to the income from the seller until he brought out 100% of the LLC.50 is still a young age - I was thinking they would benefit from deferring the gain as a result of inheritance and getting a step up of basis for their heirs.Sorry if I misunderstood your LLC scenario.

Like a large ship at sea though they require lots of time and sea room to turn and maneuver and when they sink it takes forever but you have absolutely no control over that sinking process.You lose some direct key benefits with REITs as well. 

Don't get caught in the trap of not wanting to hurt your cash flow, when that equity could be better utilized to generate more cash flow in a safely leveraged additional investment with all the other associated benefits of owning more property(loan pay down, depreciation, chance for appreciation, etc.).

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Can you benefit from it when you are actively doing business, absolutely yes. 

By my math it’s a good deal for him as he is essentially a wash between his lease rate and his annual distributions from reinvesting the proceeds; no capital gains exposure and has $2.98m working for him at a healthy 10%, and exposure to a sponsor relationship that has tremendous, yet intangible value.

I don't think applying for a loan right now is of any benefit to you, as your husband isn't going to be on it so you can't use his income toward it.

The benefit would be you would know how much each unit would use, the inconvenience would be that you would have to monitor the flows and modify the S/W/T bills for your tenants accordingly.