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.

Alison Miller - That is great advice, and in fact I've developed my own software to keep track of all my leads and mailings.

Hello BP forum -I'd love to hear how other landlords approach asset protection as it relates to your rental properties.