I've been advised to set up separate LLCs for international investments and would like additional tips/advice from individuals who have done this already. 

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It's much easier than trying to do it yourself.Tip: an individual can only have one Service Animal per disability.

Fleischer V Commission is one of several tax court cases, that limits personal service businesses (real estate agents, insurance sales man, accountants, architects, etc) from using an s-corp structure, because the services provided are by an actual individual and not provided from a corporation. 

However I am eager to learn as well network with like-minded & local individuals who can help steer me in the right direction.1.

Commercial loan may have a higher interest rate but would likely have lower fees at closing than 4 individual loans. 

After you have done some deals; you can start talking to high-net-worth individuals about lending you money for your deals.

@Wensheng Chen you can take the tax free gain every two years and you can do that multiple times over your life.As far as the two owners, each person can qualify individually for the $250k gain exclusion, provided each person lived in the property for 2 of 5 years as their primary residence. 

They at one time were the domain of relatively large principals, but I have heard more recently of such activities being performed between smaller interests even as small individuals.

I have in my lease that the downstairs tenants can take off $40 for the month when it snows, not for individual times but just for that month when they send a photo of it cleared.