The company can survive without an individual C-level - production, marketing, billing and receivables roll merrily on - because THAT is the company's bread and butter, not anything individual C-levels do - they do not "out-value" the hundreds of hourly people their compensation represents.If you can show me where I made a blanket statement, I will gladly concede that point.

Small claims court is generally very individual friendly and straight forward.

Because of my experiences over the years, I'm able to problem solve situations in contracting with excellent results that are both efficient and cost effective.I'm looking forward to meeting and networking with other individuals who are in need of a trustworthy contractor.

FHA loans and all Fannie Mae loans can only be held in an individual's name.  

Thanks Guys,So, I think I understand, but let me walk through it again.The initial purchase and rehab would be done as a cash deal with a Tenancy in Common between my Solo 401k and my buddy, as an individual investor.Once the rehab was done and we got a renter in place, we would then "sell" the property to an LLC that both my friend and I are individual investors (not the Solo 401k) and use non-recourse lending to finance the property.

Regarding a Series LLC...when you say it is basically a batch of LLCs that are treated as one big LLC, is this meant as far as taxes are concerned (meaning I can file taxes only once as the "big" LLC - thus saving me the headache and money of filing many individual returns)?

I bet that's the same thing.I'm just leery of insurance agents using fear to sell extra insurance programs to gullible individuals. 

(Which after all, were originally intended to be written by individual FAMILY members to show legal disinterest to all the other FAMILY members / joint owners!

A great PM company or individual is paramount to the success of multiple property portfolios.

We always had leases witnessed by two individuals for both landlord and tenant.