If you want to buy a property with seller financing, you are most likely going to have to find that yourself because the one thing that most won't tell you about seller financing is that the seller is not doing that type of deal if they don't like you and if you are an ancillary party asking for that, you are nothing to them.Jonathan, I appreciate the optimism, lol.

Doug, congrats on getting to this stage.I am not an agent or a lawyer, but check your state dept. of real estate web site.

However, if your equity position is more than 40%, you are likely not optimizing the use of your money.I strive for 75% loan to value, but this is very difficult to maintain. 

I want to own my properties in separate LLC's for asset protection, but operate them through one "business" name that I can use for all accounts/transactions (think: Google Voice, email address, web domain, one credit card, paying all the contractors, property manager, etc.) and that one "business" is an LLC separate from the property LLC's. 

Cash flow would be a cherry on top but not what we're optimizing for here.- We have a massive mortgage to pay on our current primary home ($1.3M)Questions:- We haven't defined a timeline for when our agreement would stop.

It would be much cheaper to hire a CPA that knows what they are doing.See the IRS web site for additional details https://www.irs.gov/businesses...

Either it is or it ain't :).Developing a piece of raw ground requires a certain mix of optimism and frankly, equal parts of stupid and luck.

Hard money loans, private money loans and seller financing can all be used to acquire properties with less than optimal credit.I have used private lending to acquire more than 100 houses in less than five years as a foreign national with no credit and no SSN, so it can definitely be done.You could also look at wholesaling... no credit needed there!

Because my income will jump much higher than current, I am trying to figure out how to optimally invest in RE.

Are you not transferring the weight of the loaded swing to the glue that binds the added plywood to the webbing?