I was informed by KCMO Health Department that landlords are supposed to be paying an annual fee to them and they conduct inspections of rental units in the city?

As Account Closed mentioned, the first question is to decide if you want to invest actively or passively. 

There’s a good chance that if lender finds out of property transfer via title records, insurance policy beneficiary, bank account submitting mortgage payments, they’ll assume that John  Smith formed a trust to own title and will not flag the  file for any action.  

I don't want to work all my life, and have nothing to show for it other than dying with a bigger bank account than most people.Having a modest level of financial independence provides, perhaps, the least amount of clarity compared to either having non at all or being super wealthy. 

Ok to summarize it seems that there is Zero way to dodge CA annual fee.

I save untold thousands annually thanks to it.  

My wife used to work for REM Wisconsin in accounting. 

Interest payments hit my account as expected.

@Guillaume Vidallet I'll chime in here since it seems like everyone answered your question and gave some great advice.I'll suggest that whether you have one LLC or multiple LLCs you have separate bank accounts for each and make sure not to commingle any money.

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