You are renting the ground you are on.

The IDFPR may “refuse to issue or renew a license, may place on probation, suspend, or revoke any license, reprimand, or take any other disciplinary or non-disciplinary action as the Department may deem proper or impose a fine not to exceed $25,000 upon any licensee under this Act . . . for any one or combination of” the grounds for discipline set forth in §20-20 of the Act, 225 ILCS 454/20-20.Additionally, a licensee may be subject to both civil penalties and criminal liability for the unlicensed practice of real estate brokerage: Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds oneself out to practice as a real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or leasing agent without being licensed under this Act shall, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, pay a civil penalty to the Department in an amount not to exceed $25,000 for each offense as determined by the Department. 225 ILCS 454/20-10(a).     

There are very good times to use an attorney, and when you use one, you want to get a good one, but this is well-trod ground and the state-specific from the major LLC setup sites will work perfectly well for most people.

Good to have boots on the ground!

I am grateful that the judge sent the kid to juvie after admonishing the mother stating:"If either of these two people had died of a heart attack, he would be on trial for murder right now."

A stark reminder that our time on this Earth is finite.So, I very am grateful for my friends and family.

And I’d be grateful if you’d tell me about it.Now, worse yet, on this general opinion of whether stocks and money are more real or whether actually real estate is more real, consider: If you fear inflation (maybe you don’t, but if you do) then the measure of your finances should be not in dollars but in headcount.  

The more jobs they get done, the more they make but they'll be my guy on the ground.

I'm not sure at what point to tell potential tenants that I will be living in the downstairs.Do I put it in my advertisement or wait until right before the back-ground check?

Typically an engineer will come and run some tests on the ground to make sure it's the proper density, composition, etc. before any building takes place.The site prep itself is everything after the grading and before anything is actually constructed.