However, as a newbie, I am at a loss of how to begin to structure an offer or offers.

Does the trust share the same protection as the listed insureds in case of loss or claim including lawsuits ?

In the event you have a breach on your lease and the seller(landlord) evict you your funds would be loss, unless you put some condition of improvement reimbursements in the lease agreement.To me best thing to do is have seller carry back a note for 3 to 5 years to give your self a change to refinance the property later or resell it with a tenant in it.

From what I have witnessed a lot of the buy and hold investments going on in SoCal were plays made years and years ago, bought during the recent market depression, or are what I call a loss hold investment.

“Any change, any loss, does not make us victims.

My 2cents cut your loss and pays him.Joe Gore

You can have as many models of analysis as feasible that may be appropriate for any operation.

Just a heads up you cannot create a loss (with the Truck purchase as a 179 deduction) in the S-Corp.BUT it can eliminate all profit(s) then the balance of the truck needs to be depreciated.

And it sounds as if you'd need a few years to build up your cash reserves before investing further anyway, so no loss there.

After itemizing and realizing the loss in the business, I should have a tax credit of around 30k The short term is = 10% * 17,850 + 15% * (50000-17,8500) = 6,900 The long term is = 15% * 200,000 = 30000 So after my tax credit I should owe the fed less than 10,000 State will be 250,000 * 6.8% = 17000 So my total hit will be around $25,000 Did I do this correct?