You assign a contract, double close, buy in an LLC and sell the LLC or some other technique that makes you a principal to the deal, but the basic idea is you find a buyer, find a seller, put them together and collect a fee.

Moreover was feeling responsible, as the crash was timed almost perfectly with my deciding to purchase a Pro Basic account.

She is polite but basically didn't like us at first sight.

From some basic research, the fee's for using square are a bit higher than you would get if you had a merchant account, so that must be the rub.Good thought about them canceling their car.

It would basically be a trade for a possibly lower return in your preferred area.Any thing you sell for above what you have into it would be a boon for your returns in the year that you sell it.

Basically, it would take a PG and a UCC-1 against the entity (that holds title and collects the rents) specifically naming the income as collateral in lieu of the property.

Basically, you're going to find that title companies want to see documents between the actual buyer and the actual seller, so a middleman such as yourself has to be careful.

My guy is that, if you're unclear on some of these basic rules, you're probably not be overly aggressive in your tax savings -- a good tax guy *will* save you more than he costs you.

This does *NOT* include debt service.A lot of times here on BP, we talk about "the 50% rule," which is basically just shorthand for assuming all expenses will come in around 50% of gross rents.

You can read it here, if you like: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6874079/psychic-benefits-nba-lockoutThe point is basically that NBA teams are typically awful businesses, yet shrewd, wealthy business people buy them, so there has to be some type of intrinsic value or non-financial utility that owning an NBA team provides to the owners, otherwise all owners would sell and the league would eventually shut down.