The cost to be a member of that organization however seems excessive.  

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Under the Act, unless the governing instrument provides otherwise, a beneficial owner is entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private, for profit corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.4 If a natural person, the trustee must be a resident of Delaware.

I spent the last 2 months picking out a property I was comfortable with, organizing the FHA financing and 203k repair loan and here I am, walking into equity due to a healthy appraisal after all was said and done.The gist of it is, I went through a lot of hoops because the house needed work, had awful tenants, was in cosmetic (but not structural) disrepair and had an inept real-estate agent.

I organize a meet-up for RE investors once every two weeks that you might want to attend to network.

I attend more fundraisers for sick children, family who's home burned, raffle for fire departments than I can possibly remember in a month.That being said when my company/business "gives back" it is to a 503c compliant organization that I can claim on taxes.

If you don't have the account set up in your name, then I'm afraid you will have to go down to the office in person, and need to show the deed, your LLC's articles of organization and EIN.

I would like to start a meet-up group to exchange ideas, pick each other's brains and most importantly, rub shoulders with those that have the same goals.Let's this ball rolling for the new year.

I heard on one of the podcasts that I recently listened that there was a deal pipeline software that was good at keeping everything organized. 

If you don't know how to operate your LLC don't have good articles of organization and an operating agreement an LLC is easy to pierce.