Whether to start your RE career in an entity or not...

[Nathan Reed]

I just wanted to ask everyone's opinion on whether a newbie should be opening an entity to do their deals in from day 1 or not. I personally chose to start with an SCorp, but I have seen a lot of great posts about house-hacking (love the name) and purchasing under a DBA for the first few deals and was wondering if anyone has had any issues with getting sued by tenants, having issues transferring the properties out of their own name later down the road, etc. Just curious what some of the more experienced investors' thoughts are.