Hi everyone,I just retired from the military (Army, SF), and am starting my new career as a RE investor.

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My wife and I have achieved the goals that we wanted to accomplish in our first years of being together and we are faced with the reality that if we don't go take over my families' business, my parents will either sell the business which wouldn't leave them enough to retire on, or keep running the business and allow it to put them in an early grave.

I just ran my projections from July to December on one of my houses I just retired the mortgage on and the expenses will run 50% of the income gross exactly.

Little old lady who is retired.

For example if a suit is won against the LLC due to activities involving the business itself the perhaps the judgment would only be able to be executed against the LLC and it may be more difficult to use co-mingling to come after me personally since the LLC benefitted from the loan in my name in the sense that the loan in my personal name could be clearly demonstrated as a contribution to the LLC since the LLC needed such in order to purchase the property to begin with.The very best alternative to all of this is to whenever possible own the property in a retirement (roth or traditional) account as that provides the absolute ultimate protection in America. 

While I agree with @J Scott in principle, not everyone has the retired father-in-law or uncle that is looking to do better than an US Treasury Bond in retirement, and thus, can't always do business with people they know.

I am in the Navy and looking to retire in the next 4 years and I am setting my sights on real estate investing as an avenue to build passive income to support retirement. 

Details: I'm currently 30 (no kids) and my wife and I plan on retiring with a decent "pension" at 42.  

Investing in RE was my idea after we retired.