You did some fraud or such and I would want to know for sure before doing business with someone. 

Lessons learned education on going I decided to get back into it with a business mind set.

He has a big business, managing 1,500+ doors.

Treat investing as a genuine business rather than a side hustle.

You can make a lot more than 5-6-7% w/ other investments or through private money lending, which I do as well.

I use to do business via a C Corp, but because of the FAPI rules, the tax deductions have been lowered to 1.9x instead of 4x.

We own a 7 unit apartment building at the beach and would like to replace our present bank loan with private funding of some type. 

@Jay Samudio great advice from @Melanie P.Also, in our 24 years of experience, a tenant that has to get emergency relief typically ends up behind on rent again very soon.Be sure the tenant cooperates with providing documentation explaining why they fell behind and that the problem is highly unlikely to repeat.If they won't cooperate and state, "none of your business', then what does that tell you?

Then you would be back to business.

Creating an US business entity to purchase the properties.