Not likely to happen on a property with a $350K value.If your mother doesn't qualify for a loan to buy out her sister, then perhaps the two of you could do an offer that combines some cash and a seller carry back.

My gut tells me that as we grow-up to larger (8,12,16+ unit) properties things will become more business like and familiar.3) Contractors ... let's just say, your average contractor in this industry is much different than in the software / IT sector.We funded this real estate "startup" using an investment from our software company and, to date, our acquisitions have all been financed through a combination of our own funds and conventional lending.

So lets just pretend that I found a property for 1.0 million (for ease of the example) and had a combination of 30% private money and 70% hard money already lined up.

Usually when building capital, it is a combination of steady savings and some other unplanned/unexpected financial windfall that we use for investing rather than a new big screen or whatever the average person does with it.

keep in mind a lot of lenders will not lend beyond 95% of CLTV (combined loan to value). you may need to close first, and then take on that second loan.

The courts ruled that even though each cab was owned in its own LLC, since they were being administered by one LLC, all cabs then were subject to the law suit.So in short, a good combination of reasonable LLCs coupled with appropriate liability insurance is the best answer.

I am an owner and landlord of several units, and have a unique proposal for the landlord of another building.

The issue with combining both the operations side and the accounting side is that none of them can do both of them well - I have been spending some time looking at the trials and they seem to have strengths in one over the other. 

By a combination of HSA contributions and Employee/Employer 401k contributions, our joint MAGI is low enough to qualify for premium tax credits.  

Based on my research combined with your answer it looks more and more to me that regardless if the property was used for a rental or not used as a rental as long as I meet the two years in 10 as primary resident I still qualify for the tax exclusion.