For the next 35 minutes all the Tetris pieces of my mind fell into place.

I highly recommend Sterling Williams and Tim Macy to be your eyes and ears in the SA market.

The property is in its own LLC.OK so the buyer just bought an LLC that owns a piece of property, right?

I know a number of us offer that service along with or separate from actual mail pieces.

Its not necessary for average investors who own maybe a dozen pieces of real estate and assets under $1MIn California where lots of real estate is over $1M, people also use Trusts, and layered Trusts to make it difficult to find the real owner of a flipped house.

@Dean B.One thing to consider is donating the land to the project as equity in exchange for a piece of the pie.

The ONLY (reliable) way to get leads is through PPC and Facebook ads.Let me say this again because I have noticed with a lot of mortals, there is some nasty goo and crap accumulating in "ears" and I guess that is why people often don't listen.

At the very beginning, I felt like I couldn't comfortably make offers if I didn't have more pieces of the puzzle in place. 

@Eric P.This is something that's going to make you money, so listen to me, please.Tax advantages are one of the major reasons to own rental properties.Your CPA will hopefully manage to get this return together and not make a pig's ear of it.

I have a few pieces of advice and tools that I think will help you out.Chicago is a great coworking market and the suburbs are underserved based on my research.