I think they had well over 200 employees at the Office I went to,  It was their headquarters all the honcho's named above officed there.

I'm a W2 employee and not a relator so the meetup is not pitching any products or trying to sell you a course, it's a way to network!   

From: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p925#en_US_2022_publink1000...Qualifications.You qualified as a real estate professional for the year if you met both of the following requirements.More than half of the personal services you performed in all trades or businesses during the tax year were performed in real property trades or businesses in which you materially participated.You performed more than 750 hours of services during the tax year in real property trades or businesses in which you materially participated.Don’t count personal services you performed as an employee in real property trades or businesses unless you were a 5% owner of your employer.

You would do that anyway with a sole-proprietorship and not have the hassle of the reporting that comes with a W2 employee.

We're hoping to rent a unit to an employee of a company- Basically, the company is assuming the costs of the rental and paying for it for their employee to stay in it.

A company has guaranteed a lease (the company pays but a single employee is on the lease).

I've heard you can designate a family member as an employee and avoid taxes if you keep their income under a certain limit.

For instance, as an Owner/Builder, you must pull the permits, and this instantly makes YOU responsible for the satisfactory completion of said permit, and you also must know applicable codes.If one of your Subs has an employee that is not completely legit, then that falls on you as well, and you might not have even known about it.....!

For other folks, here are some other entities that would, if you sold the property to, have negative tax consequences: YouYour spouseAny of your lineal ascendants or descendants (parents, children, grandchildren, and the spouses of children, grandchildren, — including legally adopted children)Any investment providers or fiduciaries of the IRAAny entity (like a corporation, LLC, or trust) where a disqualified person owns more than 50%Any entity (like previously listed) where the IRA account-holder is an officer, director, a 10% or more shareholder, or a highly compensated employee

Our schools train people to be employees not to be successful.