I hate the idea of renting any more, and their credit is poor, which is why I am forced to think about using my own name to purchase the home.  

He walked into 200k equity with another 200k upside forced appreciation.

You receive a W-2 from an investment banking firm - no need for a company there, earned income.You receive a W-2 from the DJ business now and so you would not want to receive wages or earned income and deposit it into an LLC and report that as SE income and be subject to the SE taxes a second time on the same money and you would not want to deposit it into an S-corp and then be forced to pay yourself W-2 earnings and pay payroll taxes (same as SE tax) for a second time on the same money again.The only question left is the side gigs you do and I would put that on your Sched C income and buy yourself a bond insurance policy which is probably pretty cheap.Joe

I wanted to do it on my own, but I don't want greed to force a mistake.Thanks, Rich

I think you need to play hard here and tell them that you are being forced to have the car towed, if it is not removed by a certain date.

She said the media really needs to be unbiased and give time to all the candidates.This is a problem I've heard numerous times after debates, after speeches, and the voters really are being left out and forced to choose among the ones the media keeps putting in front of us.

Tell them 5 times when they are filling out the app, that you are forced to abide by the lease agreement no matter what and you will not accept any excuses if they break the contract.

After 10 years, most of my payments have gone toward interest, and a balloon would force me to refinance, which would mean my payments are once again going almost all toward interest.

But you still owe $2M.You can be forced by the courts to sell those four properties and the profits can be taken to pay off that judgment.

Also, a lender can’t force a sale on those properties anyhow… They may ask her to refinance them to pull cash out, but she can just say she can not get a loan due to here credit.