Just becuase you do not have an LLC or Corporation does not mean you do not have a business.

It is true, you will have to register your out of state LLC as a foreign corporation in MA if you buy property in that LLC.

If you have not paid them thet are under no obligation to explain anything to you and they may just say they don't know about that.

Lastly,in the long run, SFR's just don't fit the corporate model.

It is his job, his obligation, to veto an illegal ruling in bankruptcy court related to title.

Personally, I have pretty good idea of how much my professional time is worth (from having been in the corporate world for a long time) and I use that as a baseline.Ultimately, at the end of every year, I do a quick calculation that estimates the number of hours I worked in the real estate business, and multiply that by my hourly "worth", to generate my hypothetical salary that I should have expected to take from the business.I then create my financial statements (most importantly my P&L) that counts that "salary" as an expense and analyzes the success of the business as if I had paid myself that salary.

A really good compilation of Buffett's letters was organized by Lawrence Cunningham and is called "The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lesson for Corporate America".

If the answer is banker, employee or manager of a major corporation, than the bank is the better choice.

Here is one of my favorites: "If the America people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas JeffersonIt is my hope that one day all Americans will know that the Federal Reserve is no more "Federal" than federal express.

I have focused primarily in RE/municipal/corporate law and I think I have a fairly strong background in the contract side of things (purchase and sale, leases, etc.).I come from a family of plumbers and contractors - my dad owns and operates a remodel company and I have a couple of years experience working in that field prior to law school.