I believe farmland deserves a small place in my portfolio, since it is so essential to life.

And it helps recruiting other agents to work with you and essentially also provide the buyer.

If you're confident that you can essentially double your profit by doing a full rehab, if you're a full time investor and don't have other potential deals on the horizon (like you said, Phoenix is really tough these days), then you can probably make a case for doing the full rehab, even with all the frustrations and travel time.

Essentially, we are going to help them decide that they shouldn't be living in our unit if they are going to be a slacker when it comes to paying their rent.   

I've essentially ruled out conventional financing (even though I work for the fastest growing mortgage company in the U.S. contact me for anything regarding that btw) as I cannot qualify given my debt load.

Essentially, I put out $ 10,000 this week, and took a draw the following week for the same amount.

But doing lots of this also exposes your plan to UBIT, which is nasty little tax with pretty stiff rates, essentially negating much of the growth you were expecting.As far as getting the company match on a 401k, with a 100% match, it would take 12 years for a non-401k with no match to overcome the 100% head start in the 401k, assuming 5% returns in the 401k and 12% in the non-401k.

You want to know if the title is clear as soon as possible so "hiring" your own title company ASAP is essential to that process.

regardless of a personal guaranty, banks will look at any/all loans to an LLC as a commercial loan. currently, my bank isn't even offering comerical loans for real estate. while i agree with mike that essentially its a loan to the same entity (LLC or LLCs owner), the banks do not look at it like that.i urge you to close in your name and then do as will has suggested. i have yet to see a bank call a note for doing this.

With real estate investing, ‘standing out’ is essential to success and this may be your first real opportunity to do that.How can you get there?