So there's the alternative, which is my model, where I have agents who hang their license with us and start developing a portfolio within our model with the intent of opening a branch or something more independent with us as partners.  

I have to admit that Dale has me seriously considering Assisted Living Facilities as an alternative to multi-family properties.

I encourage all my salon employees to find an alternative source of income because cutting hair is SO hard on your body.  

So you wouldn't want to put down a new asphalt driveway and then have the drywall truck leave divots in it.

@Joel Duguay - As already stated, the tax implications should be a non-issue on the sale of your primary residence.As an alternative to selling, you could also pull out a ton of equity with a HELOC and potentially have your cake and eat it too.  

However, if you are doing anything "active" such as flipping or wholesaling, you want to do S-corp (alternatively you can file your LLC to have S-corp tax treatment) because you don't want to have to pay self employment tax on all the profit.

Gave a guy down th road with a truck $10 to move 1 squatter to his destination and I moved the other squatter, in my truck, to his destination. 

Another alternative is the Michael Blank's syndication analyzer that he is selling on his website.

It will provide you asset protection if whatever the company does that provides the service we’re to get sued they don’t have that commercial property asset.As it relates to value of the property or refinancing it won’t make a difference because you will have to disclose to the bank you own both entities and they will look at both and you personally to see if you can afford it, if it were to fail there is a good chance they would go after both then you since the one renting will be in default to your entity that owns it and if they default….So unless you need it to separate the two businesses for protection from whatever that other business does, it may not be worth it.For example others that do this are Walmart shipping trucks are not owned by Walmart they run them under other entities….

Some insurance providers will accept Appraisal document as an alternative proof.Working with a Lender-Ask for the anticipated closing date so that you can use it as Coverage Start Date for insurance.