In my case, I have residential rentals in one LLC, commercial properties in another, self storage in a third, and my real estate company operates in a fourth.

My practice area ties heavily into the real estate industry and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on ways to build my referral network both in law and real estate as I plan to do some heavy real estate investing in the near future. 

I had contacted him because we were starting our own real estate investment business and he let me know he was now doing the coaching.

It allows them to be real investors.

As we will likely hear more about interest rates in the coming days I wanted to share some recent real world experiences in the Commercial Lending Space. 

Let the other investors go after short sales and REO's.

In the second year, landlords can't charge more than one month's rent as a security deposit.Also in PA, landlords must put security deposits over $100 into an interest-bearing account and pay the interest to the tenant after the 3rd year of occupancy.You can charge an up front pet fee or pet deposit and you can charge for parking, storage, utilities, or other amenities that you rent separately.It will depend on your situation, but I hope this helps in general!

Since, generally real estate is real estate.  

I've seen people create a new LLC per property, or per $X of equity, or after $Y of income since the $800 increases once you have higher amounts of income in the LLC, or any number of other arrangements (i.e., put all your best properties in 1 LLC and worst ones in another, or conversely, only put 1 good property in each LLC with 1 bad property). 

Should I get into contracting with a flipper or custoM home builder for 50k a year 1099 and start my own llc and be a “real estate professional” and learn the ins and outs while making less money at first,  or take a sales job 9-5 that makes 150k a year w2 and build up capital first.