By the way I have not transferred either one of my rentals into my business name just yet. 

Even if you create a non-CA LLC, if you are managing the business from California, you will likely be deemed to be "doing business" in California and therefore likely subject to CA taxes.

Hello,My contractor is having trouble finding affordable Workman's comp insurance to cover her General Contractor Business.

I spoke with our landlord/tenant attorney, and he said it would need to be a commercial lease, since the tenant is a business.

Hey all,My business partner and I just started a real estate related business, and part of what we do in our business is Co-Host short-term rentals. 

Which in turn will bring plenty of other investors and general business to the market.

No one will every care about your business or your deals as much as you do.

This is business!

Or if you wanted to run a real business, becoming a private lender would clean up, but it's a lot of work. 

Ideally, we'd like to do this so we can file for failure to pay rent against the tenant if it comes down to that, but we first want to make sure it's legal in our jurisdiction to do this.