How to present yourself to renters.

[Zachary Sales]

I am buying a house and am converting my condo into a rental. I don't want to move my condo (and mortgage) into an LLC because I will only have the one investment property at this point and don't want to run into complications with my financing. My plan is to set up a separate email account and office phone number to interface with tenants, but am not sure of how to present this. I would also prefer for the tenant to write a check to XX company instead of me personally. Do people set up an LLC that manages their properties and are separate entities from the property LLCs? Is there a licensing requirement (I don't think there is if you manage only your own properties) and would you recommend doing this vs handle everything as an individual?