Again, if large amounts of capital are willing to purchase real estate assets and collect 8.0% yield, the rest of the market will have to follow suit whether we like it or not.

It seems lately from your posts that you have looked at real estate properties to own,note buying,and now restaurants.I am trying to determine if you are placing money in multiple streams or trying to place money into one type of investment and seeing what fits looking at multiple things.There is a difference between taking say 30,000 of cash and putting all that cash into a restaurant and having 200,000 and putting into multiple things.If the restaurant doesn't work out if it's just a small part of your overall portfolio it is okay.If it is a majority of your cash into that one thing it can be a bad investment if you do not know how to analyze properly.You might want to look at business brokerage.This is where I help people analyze buying the assets of a business.Since you will not want to run it day to day you will be what is called an "absentee owner".Businesses can give a great return when purchased properlyAny specific questions just ask.

If you are leasing your own properties there are no tax advantages to using an LLC or corporation though there may be legal and asset protection reasons to use them.If you are flipping, managing properties for others, wholesaling or developing you may have tax advantages to using one or more various business entities.

All of my cash buyers are repeat buyers, that look upon me as an asset to their investing business.

Here are a list of 5 apps that two successful realtors I know are using on their iPads:1.Property Evaluator: This is an app for agents who work primarily on REOs or with real estate investors because it is a real estate investment analysis software.

Because I travel so much for business, we have been using Trex-global for our accounting software.

I would rather put down the initial payment and have someone else pay off the asset.

From my experience, there is a buyer for every type of property and asset.

Is there an asset there?

It's the landlord's job to write a lease with terms that protect their asset and it's the tenant's job to enter in a contract that they can abide by.