Just looking for some guidance on specific strategies you, or others, have employed when raising capital.

In addition, do you have the right kind of entity structure that minimizes the self employment taxes you pay on business income?

I am self-employed consultant and many/most of my clients ask me to carry commercial liablilty insurance ($2M) and include them as an insured.

Also she is willing to follow up with her husband, provide couple of paystubs of her husband's company and also talk to his employer.

You need to check if it is common for the area for the tenant to pay utilities.

This might work for someone who is self-employed, but what about someone who isn't?

Miguel Garcia We have A LOT in common.

Seems like seller carry was a lot more common then, too.

I don't know if these kinds of deals are common.

Notes can be assigned without recourse if that is the plan, the future borrower can sign with recourse, that blows that purchase money note stuff out of the water and avoiding the promise to pay is NOT a ploy to employ.