All in all, its a savvy tactic by the tenant to arm himself with something that can be headaches for the landlord.    

They got all the break dancing white folk to sit down on the sidewalk and join arms, now they are all singing Berry Gordy tunes.Smokey gets the city paddy wagon there, dang, the driver is Stevie Wonder!

This isn't saying your SDIRA can't conduct business at arm's length from you.

Here you will meet wholesalers who provide deals and all the cash buyers (rehabbers) you will need.To find out about an area go to IREM.org search for ARM certified property managers.

Jesse, you know what you're asking, I'm not so sure.Renting to an affiliate or subsidiary business entity is departmentalized accounting and is fine, renting back to a stockholder or another individual owner, you're mixing aspects of commercial operations with consumer use, this has arm's length issues.

But yesterday I met a nut case on the phone, the payee (mom) for her daughter who wants to live here, and I decided to put my foot down after she tried to strong arm me into different things. 

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I also have bigger issues with predatory dealing if I take a big option price, the perception of a sale, keeping the contracts at arm's length help defend any of those issues as well.

More often, there is more content to be found digitally in file than the hard file that is shipped.  

It also has to be an 'Arm's Length' transaction.