@Nathan Gesner said it best, IMHO- the need for an LLC is totally exaggerated on BP.

I need about 10 homes total to make up my salary in W2. 

In my area I might even have a handyman do it for about $100 total.

While the income stream is much slower, the total received is (hopefully) much greater.

Hey Kris,I totally get where you're coming from—I live in California, and it's a similar story here.

I’ve been in a similar boat and totally get how overwhelming it can be.

Suppose you have $46,000 mortgage at 8% interest on restaurant, $22,900 SBA loan, $3,900 at 1.75% interest on a microloan, $23,00 on temporary 0% interest credit cards all for the same business totaling $95,000 in debt. 

While running a large group of small landlords in Philly, i have visibility into the full realm of challenges that new investors face - and some are quite overwhelming and totally unexpected because they jumped in without fully understanding what they jumped into. 

If I used cash it would have been $8,500 and if I used Amex travel portal or United portal it would have been hundreds of thousands of those hard earned points :)Not a total expert but happy to give tips :)

If this were my deal the sale price on a triplex would likely be around $900k, so if I bought the land for $150k, and my build costs were about $500k, I would expect my interest and carrying costs to be about 10-12% of the total of that, so lets say $75k, for all in expenses of about $725k.