**If this is important to youIs maintenance an internal or external team?

@Zahmir Brooks-Smith: I have been an international real estate consultant for over 20 years and I can tell you (as some others have mentioned here): Trust is the key and you only get trust through personal contacts.

Hi all! I am looking to start my real estate journey but I live in an expensive area so if I’d want to put a decent downpayment I would need help from my parents. For all purposes they live and work outside of the US....

Note: this would be located internationally.

It just made sense for grow faster, and I knew trustworthy people who invest there.An international cellphone plan, many many phone calls, BP forum posts asking for insight and a lot of research over 6 months, and I had a team set up, THIS.

The third option would be to invest internationally.

@Michael Bertsch, Effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service in Notice 2015-82 increased the de minimis safe harbor threshold from $500 to $2500 per invoice or item for taxpayers without applicable financial statements (generally audited financial statement).

Although I do not have much experience with investing, I do have a little bit of experience in property management after spending the Summer of 2022 interning with Weidner Apartment Homes. 

Again...I'm apparently just having a hard time internalizing that.

Below are some things you may wish to consider, as to which Corporate Enity is best, for your Business Model as well as your REI Goals and objectives.Flipping PropertiesIf the primary objective of your real estate business, or one of your real estate businesses, is to buy, potentially fix up an existing property and resell it within one year, the Internal Revenue Service can consider that to be an active trade or business.