DEEDS - What type to use for an LLC transfer? ... cost?

[Spencer Hilligoss]

We just closed on our first investment acquisition - a cashflow-positive duplex! Now that the deal is closed, property manager is hired and lender has approved an LLC transfer.... it's time to tackle the LLC transfer, itself.

I was hoping that some of you thoughtful BP.com investors out there could help advise on these two questions: 

1) What type of Deed should we use to transfer the property to our own multi-member LLC?

• Special Warranty Deed? (seems like the right choice, if not slightly on the "overkill" side, and it can't cost anything incremental, right?)
• Warranty Deed?
• Quitclaim Deed?

2) What methods are out there to do a property transfer one's own California LLC... legally, quickly and frugally?

• Context: We are already actively speaking with a lawyer, and I have walked through the online legal service providers out there. In either case, it seems like you end up paying a couple hundred dollars to complete a relatively simple process. Am I missing something? 

Thanks for reading/advising!