Put houses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 under ABC LLC, then have another company on its own, XYZ LLC that holds properties 6, 7, 8 ,9 an so on.However, for one thing, you aren't in New York City or San Fransisco, you're in pure red blooded Republic Party held corporate loving, consumer despising, tenant hating Oklahoma!

IIRC fewer than 70 House seats are considered "competitive".The last time I saw Thomas Friedman interviewed he alluded to his next book, something along the lines of "Green is the new Red, White and Blue".

It may not be able to replace my income by that time, but it'll be a start.I'd like to know what red flags I should look for as we go forward in developing a working relationship.

My long term goal has always been to do the Rich Dad Poor Dad idea of "converting 4 red houses into one green hotel" and trading all my single family homes into various big commercial syndications.

Depends on your amount of due diligence on the syndication, but when I hear 'guaranteed' returns the first thing I think of is a red flag.Why do you say it's guaranteed?

However, looking at the house further, we saw no sheer wall in the garage (which was a red flag #1) about the rest of the house. 

Whoever installed it was careless and left chunks of concrete and rocks set next to the line which over time rubbed and broke the line. 

Wow, I don't use that website but there needs to be a red alert emergency notice placed on this thread for those that do to come in a hurry.

BP rocks!

they are worse now than when I did one 20 years ago.  203Ks are a pain in the @$$ (take a long time to close, restrictive red tape, sellers generally hate them), BUT one thing to keep in mind is that its not a bad way for someone without renovation experience to start.