We are looking at purchasing multi-family homes here in the DFW area, and are interested in setting up an LLC to insulate our personal assets from any property liability.

I have no problem with people selling educational material, if it is good quality material then it will help both the buyer and author make a living.

You may not qualify for a short sale if you have adequate income/assets, and sonunds like you may have some income tax liabilities if you do.

Particularly on assets that have lost value since these loans were written.For this reason, commercial real estate investors must seek alternatives now for these maturing loans.

@Eric Liu & @Brent WatsonWhere the Federal rules come into play is for Section 8 housing governed y HUD rules and Fair Housing Authority complaints.Otherwise the FBI is not coming to your house and counting bodies, unless you're like the house in Houston this week where there were 100 illegal aliens in one 3 bedroom house.

Lower down payment will definitely impact your passive income, but your cash on cash return should stay proportional.I myself am still new to this and learning and would NOT say I am an authority on this, but I wanted to share my experience with RE in Alaska.

By their actions, BoA was unfair to distressed homeowners and to the authors of the Home Affordable Modification Program.

Like selling a business for only the value of the assets of the company (businesses are valued on the assets and cashflows the create).

But I believe they can still come after my assets.

What I took from the authors opinion is that in order for a decent growth rate such as 3% there is a number of things that need to go correctly.