My concern is that it feels unreasonable, almost like a "bait and switch", But I don't want to sustain a rental loss either.Since I can easily find new tenants, and will have little vacant time, is raising it and letting them move if necessary a better tactic than doing a partial increase as consideration fir them as good tenants?

Hi, William, You'll want to have a good tax attorney / tax accountant on your team, hopefully the same person.The idea of a business entity structure is primarily to facilitate asset protection.

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My concern other than things like water pipes breaking and damaging other units would be protecting myself from claims by tenant.Is this make sense?

Does you method provide the applicant protection? 

The lenders push for appraisals right away and the sellers push for a fast closing to try to bully the process and get you to commit a lot of cash fast where you have no leverage once issues are found.You have to slow it down sometimes to protect your interest.

In my area reputable companies will not switch just the air handler or just the heat pump.

Also as of right now I would be using it to fund fix n flips and hopefully buy n hold but I can't seem to figure out how to structure them to protect all parties involved...I am also wandering about sec rules and how they apply to any of this.

If the primary borrower can't pay the mortgage, the noteholder will absolutely protect their own interests and go after the partner regardless of whether or not their name is on the deed.This situation happens all the time in divorce cases where one ex-spouse quitclaims the house to the other but later finds out they can't qualify for a loan because the the mortgage is still under both their names and is killing their DTI.

You can make sure that those line items are taken out of the contract so you can protect your end, we have done that for clients but also try to protect ourselves due to unforeseen expenses that come up that need to be taken care of.