Nationwide Property Investments has educated many on ths topic in live workshops and seminars around the country.

However, some of your investors might come from countries with free trade agreements that provides certain tax benefits that are specific to the country.As far as tax filing goes, it's fairly simple, most CPAs can do that for a fairly low fee since they will likely be filing the EZ form if their only source of income is from the rental property.

When I hear people talk about real estate prices in other parts of the country, I can hardly believe it.

Because fraud is being committed all over the country.

It also gives one pause when thinking about investing overseas and the importance of knowing the host country's laws.

Bryan those 30 to 50k unit multi's would cashflow in maybe ny or la im thinking i maybe wrong but in those higher end cities like Palo Alto and other areas of the country they would make sense.So they would cashflow,I read an article not too long ago where Sam Zell bought a complex for over 200 mil

Does it vary more by area (of the country), or just contractor to contractor?

Sounds like an insurance agent speaking, and that too is a good idea, but it sounds like you may have lost a case or perhaps you were a party to a matter that left a bad taste in your mouth for LLCs, keep in mind that when something is said here it is put out to the whole country (or world).

The 2% rent goal will not work in most parts of the country, major metro areas like Phoenix (or Las Vegas where I am) are difficult to get a 1% rental rate.

It really depends on what part of the country you are searching and where RT was getting the data from.