At the very least, you should deal with this issue before you file your subsequent eviction.

I would appreciate it if you could help me set up a team towards investing in rental properties.I will be self funding my initial investment but will use refinance to fund subsequent investments.I will appreciate your guidance.Suhael Ahmed

What is the next and subsequent steps for me after the redemption period has expired.

Subsequently, they lost all of their local employees (I even hired one for my personal properties).

At that point, your ENTIRE ESTATE  is exposed and subject to discovery in subsequent litigation.I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice.My $0.02 ...

The sooner you pay off 5 units, the sooner you can use that cashflow for property management + paying the 6th unit off in cash in the very first year (and for every subsequent unit!!)

Subsequently, I took out another HELOC on the rental property itself and it has not been used. 

My recommendation is to start by truly understanding what owning your properties in an LLC will do for you before spending money on entity formation and the subsequent transactional costs.

Subsequently, there are few markets that have achieved better cash flow over a long hold.  

Using these as a template I have subsequently setup all NY/CA LLCs on my own.