(The property’s home state and your state of tax residence will both want money if they collect income tax.)If the property is only in his name you avoid all the taxes by waiting until his death to give your daughter the property.

If you pick your JV correctly you can make a lot of money.

To distribute property at death and to save money on taxes.

I didn't have a lot of money- but I could have been smarter about it.

You can spend as little as $100 to form an LLC, or you could use an attorney and spend $1,000 or more.

I trust my agent but I also would like to be able to verify what they told me was true especially when it cost me more money.

My idea was to establish myself with some paid-off, cash flowing properties to make leveraging them for more investments a lot easier.I'd like to flip some houses to generate some cash, but  even knowing what I know I'm struggling to see how to make money doing so. 

This is in sharp contrast to our properties near Santa Cruz, California, where we spend most of our time and energy.Californian's are known to be laid back and soft compared to east-coasters. 

If you have no debt and can save up a bit more money, before getting to the equity loan.

I don't know the rent amount or security deposit amount but if they're not paying, many times they don't have the money.