This will involve operating a piece of real estate and starting a business inside that piece of real estate.

As for cash flow, buy or start a business.

Same thing for the senior living deal - I've had a bunch of people reach out - I'm not an expert but have been in it a bit - but no one has been willing to come meet me where I live and the business is at.Anyways I've come to the conclusion the apartment deals I'll want to look for I'll be getting Hud or some sort of other non recourse loan and will just do it myself with no one elses money. 

Just remind yourself that you are running a business and let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Are you using a title and escrow company? 

An LLC is used for business related assets.A house-hack is a partially personal / partially business related assetAn LLC is normally best when personal and business are not 'comingled'best to talk to an attorney to see if you will get the asset protection you are looking for.

In either case, I would say most lenders will not allow the use of funds if its not for business purpose only and you definitely cannot owner occupy on a DSCR loan. 

Quote from @Nader Shariff: Quote from @Travis Biziorek: Well, definitely some funny business happened with this one (as we suspected).It's back up for auction today: https://buildingdetroit.org/properties/5010-lafontaine I just saw that lol. 

Does the basis remain in place since the seller would presumably hold the title until the payments are complete?