As such, payments that you make need to be prorated between business deductions and personal deductions.

The things that will probably be important:1. does each LLC have the same ownership2. do all the LLC's have the same type of business (ie. each LLC is for the ownership of separate but similar businesses)3.

All agents said business was significantly down.

Also practically, building a sustainable active income through the sales business will get very far.

DTH  I would be cautious going into business with friends or family.

Isn't the whole point of this community to self start and handle business?

Which in turn will bring plenty of other investors and general business into the market.

A ST rental takes time to build up a solid book of business, normally 2-3 years. 

These connections go back to a prior business before I was actively investing in real estate but it has worked out well now that I’m busily buying multi family properties.

A ton of companies in the past decade or so have tried to dress up businesses as "tech companies" (WeWork calling a sharespace office lessor the most notorious) to gain hype, valuations etc.