In real estate, I'm sure that the IRS will have it's stats as to what is fair compensation and in the event that is ever exceeded, probably wouldn't now until after the fact.

All that said, you can certainly play with the structure a bit to attract investors.

There’s no question, when it comes to the real estate investment business, private and hard money lenders are important. Many of the biggest hard money lenders who lent heavily before the crash, are now out of busines...

Keywords play a good part in this, but equally important is the placement and "mark up" of those keywords.

"misleading a federally-insured lending institution" is a fairly common term in indictments that send people to club "fed" for a few years.

I have to play with the numbers based on the history of reo/ss closings in the neighborhood and how many are currently listed, blah, blah blah.Its not rocket science, just math.

However interest rates are so low and as I am toying with 15 year mortgages a big chunk of my mortgage payments would be paying down principal from the start, and it seems like this should play some effect when considering returns.

This will hopefully allow us to shift income to an entity taxed at a lower rate by owning both LLC's and charging the major income business a healthy fair market rent.

Assuming he quotes me a fair estimates and delivers, I do not see why he should share in profits.

Just really do a gut check and once you have decided go after it with much gusto or play it safe and conservative.