While this is a great and highly motivating goal, most people are either clueless or incorrect in their belief as to what is required to obtain this “lifestyle”.Understanding of the “how to” get there is further obscured by the misleading, and often patently false “pathways” sold by real estate educational MARKETING companies as workshops, upsold to association memberships, upsold to mentorships.

It’s a completely ridiculous and obscure law to me, and definitely ruined my day!

The only major difference is usually prepayment penalties and maybe some obscure, unusual loan terms in certain cases. 

Pretty much every small business other than some obscure ones that are excluded (see below) If you have 12 Single Member LLCs that own your rental properties.

I've also used some more obscure companies in the seller financing world like Pioneer Title in Idaho (they call in Long Term Escrow Servicing) and Security Escrow in NM (recently purchased by Sunwest Escrow).

If you are looking for property in San Diego that is going to have good initial cash flow, you are going to either have to identify an obscure value add or expect to spend a lot of time and effort to find good off market purchase (most off market offers are not great). 

A land trust primarily obscures ownership, but its role in your structure needs clarification.

Lenders have different loan capacity at any point in time; they might not announce that they aren’t making a certain type of loan right when you need it; they’ll take your application but either delay you to death or find an obscure reason to decline the loan4.

Well it was a profit of nearly 100%, took 7 months to do so almost 200%...but we met a very neat individual who buys property in obscure places and takes them from 'scrapers' to family homes by working with low income skilled individuals.

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