Tenants and landlords both know utility costs are a powerful leverage tool.

Hey Jay  I looked at selling the plat but Columbus is 40 miles from the blazing hot market of Billings, the big developers from there wanted to make 40% and were not all that interested in coming out this way, and for us make enough  money to pursue this endeavor  it worked out better to put all the infrastructure in, we are putting in the new road, power, gas and water to each lot, we are even dropping culverts in to access each lot. 

I'm not sure how you, in Central California, can get wholesale deals in AK, but more power to you!

This new alternative setup would be quite simple: Oakbrook PM LLC adopts QRP (Solo 401k)As part of the plan creation we would create a trust with the purpose of holding plan's assets You become the trustee of the trust (which give you power and control over all assets and investments)Trust will have it's own EIN (single number)Both you and your wife will have separate accounts as plan participants under the same trust (there is no additional cost for another plan participant)Also, each of you can have separate Roth accounts under the same plan, if you chose to make post tax contributions or do the conversion (there is no additional cost for Roth sub-accounts, that comes with every single plan)By doing truly self-directed Solo 401k plan you would have significantly reduced your cost, simplified the structure and gained more flexibility!

Theres so many way to make a million as people love to say on the podcasts and I think you need to take time to realize what will make you want to do it(motivate you to power through the treacherous and mundane) .  

Saying "our driveway" won't cut it;Driveway agreementThe parties, named owners, each having the powers to grant, sell, convey and set over, each to the other, those rights and conveyances of easements being granted, for the use and maintenance of that certain common driveway described as follows:  ....that existing driveway beginning at the southeast corner of lot 16, cherry hills subdivision according to the recorded plat thereof located in Longhorn County, Texas thence running northwesterly parallel to said westerly lot line 65 feet, thence easterly 24 feet to that point 16 feet easterly of the west lot line of Lot 14 of cherry hills subdivision according to the recorded plat thereof and 152' south of the said northwest corner of Lot 14, thence southerly parallel to said lot line 64 feet to the right-of-way, thence westerly to the point of beginning, all laying in within the legal descriptions of said parcels, containing 1,421 square feet, M/L, in said County.    

This article in the Globe tells the absolute truth about what Account Closed - do we buy into the upswing and thus speculate on the power of the wave (and in the process overpay relative to fundamentals), or do we continue to underwrite the exit based on fundamentals in the face of the reality that nobody cares about the fundamentals and in underwriting this way we, while ensuring safety fir our investors, are pricing ourselves completely and utterly out of the current market?

Just sayin.  1031 is so profoundly powerful it is worth playing the mental chess scenarios and banging your head against the wall until you figure out how to win.Thank you for the generous amount of time and expertise you have given thus far.  

As a renter these would be red flags that the place either a) is fake and is some sort of scam, or b) isn't managed well as the owner can't advertise it properly with different prices in multiple places. 

I advised that he needs to get the power placed into his name within 2 days.