businesses question help please!

<p>Okay, so my parents own 17% of a mini mall that definitely employs less than 100 people. Does that mean they report it as a business or as an investment only? We submitted our fafsa today and we reported it as an investment. It is worth alot alot even though it's only 17% of the mall. The whole business thing is so confusing!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.finaid.org/fafsa/smallbusiness.phtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.finaid.org/fafsa/smallbusiness.phtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Looks like you did it correctly- you must own & control 51% of the business to exclude it</p>