This is the wording directly from Fannie Mae: “Effective immediately, for any property assigned to a Broker, Fannie Mae will now prohibit the purchase by the listing Broker, Listing Agent, and any licensees affiliated with the Broker, even if located in a different office under the Broker’s control.

Your LLC may have buy-sell provisions, estate planning elements that avoid default provisions, keyman provisions and deductable life insurance to fund the loss of a key person, it can allow admittance and withdrawl of any member under special circumstances.......just provides more flexibility in every aspect of doing business.Another issue, professional liability, try nailing some internet attorney form shop for errors or ommissions, failing to provide prudent counsel....you'll likely see a disclaimer, "we ain't responsible for nothin", at least your attorney is held to higher standards and will defend his work!

My internet research seems to indicate that DOS are rarely called however, I'm afraid these guys are all selling courses and down playing a real risk???

Search to for "use of money" "financial leverage" and "opportunity cost" here as well as on the internet for these economic considerations. :)

Not only did the attitudes surprise me, but do people realize what they say on te Internet can be traced to them and used in court?

It seemed that everytime I had a question about real estate, and I went searching on the internet, I found the answers in the same place: Bigger Pockets.

Also - we have the most exhaustive "hard money lender directory" on the internet - so be sure to check that out here.

http://www.brianhaskins.com/how-to-fill-out-contracts/(no affiliation with his products, I've just seen the video and recommend it)Good luck!

Use the calculator here.http://www.solo401kcalculator.com/I'm not affiliated with the above site.

You could have you IRA purchase an LLC that does prop management, but you in no way could be affiliated with that company.If your goal is to grow your retirement and work, you can do a solo401K, which I'm just starting to look into and hopefully I am stating this correctly and Jon Holdman may be able to clarify.You would open your PM business and designate the solo401K as you employees (you being the only employee) retirement plan.