. § 14-11-702, which reads as follws: (b) Without excluding other activities which may not constitute transacting business in this state, a foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting business in this state, for the purpose of qualification under this chapter, solely by reason of carrying on in this state any one or more of the following activities: (1) Maintaining or defending any action or administrative or arbitration proceeding or effecting the settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or disputes; (2) Holding meetings of its managers, members, or other owners or carrying on other activities concerning its internal affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts, share accounts in savings and loan associations, custodial or agency arrangements with a bank or trust company, or stock or bond brokerage accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of membership or other ownership interests in it or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositaries with relation to such interests; (5) Effecting sales through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, where such orders require acceptance outside this state before becoming binding contracts and where such contracts do not involve any local performance other than delivery and installation; (7) Making loans or creating or acquiring evidences of debt, mortgages, or liens on real or personal property or recording the same; (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the same; (9) Owning, without more, real or personal property; (10) Conducting an isolated transaction not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a like nature; (11) Effecting transactions in interstate or foreign commerce; (12) Serving as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, or in like fiduciary capacity, where permitted so to serve by the laws of this state; or (13) Owning directly or indirectly an interest in or controlling directly or indirectly another person organized under the laws of or transacting business within this state.Good luck!

Which groups do you recommend me to join in the Fresno area for networking purposes? 

The purpose of insurance is to distribute costs across all their policy holders, but they also have to charge for profit and overhead.

Really depends on what's easiest and looks the best for your purpose.

A woman from Las Vegas, Nevada had owned the property for several years, but does not visit any longer and was wanting to part with it (probably due to tax purposes, etc).The property consists of a small single family house, a decent outside 2 story shed, a old chicken coop (will be tore down), and about 0.5 acres of land for a whopping price of $18,500.

I relocated to Philadelphia for the sole purpose to fix and flip.

For tax purposes you have to look at the tax code.

If you are subsidising a tenants rent you are not only losing income, the sole purpose of investing, you are also devaluing your property by 10s of thousands of dollars.

I know its not helpful to you, but if someone else is reading this down the road - this is why buying in an HOA is a bad idea unless its a purpose-built resort. 

For rental purposes tring to start a new bussinessguys Thanks!!