I literally am super NEW!

Most commercial loans are 5 year fixed when you are first starting out5.5% - not great, but at 20 year fixed it becomes fabulousCommitment fee - very reasonableprepayment penalty - normalappraisal - $500 is CHEAP for a commercial appraisal, think 2000 and up where I amAnnual reporting - TOTALLY NORMAL$2000 legal fee - I wish that's all I paid for my last commercial closing, I've seen them go to the 10s of thousands for complex or large transactionsThe banks unwillingness to write an email invalidating the loan commitment they had issued - I can't blame him. 

If it's a $130,000 property that they got for a steal at a hundred grand, dumped say $40,000 on, and its present market value is $150,000 then I would agree $145 is a fair price for a turnkey ready property as long as you literally have to do nothing to it but turn the key and move your stuff in.

We're talking thousands of calls.

It will cost you some money (in the thousands most likely).  

Hi Michaela - Yep, my condo is indeed in 30316 and it literally sits right on I-285

You want to view the sale of the duplex as literally two sales as far as the accounting is handled.  

@Jay Hinrichs hat off to you, I'll have a couple Tessa's in a couple years... solar powered roofs and flying in the skies if my predictions are right.And yeah Account Closed it's not really practical but it was a possible strategy and a way you could theoretical fund multi million dollar projects with a thousand bucks. 

Mom, used to say "A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step".

What you are advising is quite literally tax evasion (highly illegal).If you set up an LLC and incur start up costs in 2016 but your business isn't actually ready to go (i.e.