The hassle of screening dozens of unqualified applicants — and then dealing with a lease break after five months — is making me think that short-term rentals might actually be the safer and more predictable option in this market.Would love to hear what others have experienced with year-round tenants on the Cape.Thanks!

Get your cousin who does sheetrock work, your wife's cousin who works for a foundation company, your other cousin who paints for a contractor and you have a team.If low income housing is all you know, it might be the thing that is the biggest thing in your life.

Or complicated LLC structures in some cases.But if someone is contributing money to such an LLC where the performance of the investment is dependent on the efforts of someone else, the investment is considered to be the sale of a security.In your example, you and your partner want to buy property and raise money from investors.

If you can be the person who brings it, you win more than you think.Shoot your shot! 

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The logistics and legal workings to do that would be massive and not worth the hassle, more than likely.So what Ron noted is the best option.  10% might not be the right number based on a ton of factors: not just the excess land, but similar. 

If you can reach the right person, you may be the only buyer they talk to.

Most people are going to beat that, but there might be things we are missing.

Bigger projects usually have more components for cost segregation, which means deeper depreciation and better cash flow on paper.Appreciation is part of it, but honestly the predictability and ability to force value through operations seem to be the real pull.

Before it started, I had no idea whether this property would be hotly contested or whether I'd be the only one interested.