For that reason, and also for the anonymity that the Land Trust gives, I would do it even if I owned the property without mortgage.In addition, get a good liability policy for your LLCs with you as additional insured.

I am keeping names anonymous out of respect for those individuals. 

This way you have the asset procession from the LLC and the anonymity from the trust on public record. 

This keeps us anonymous.

Understand and appreciate "compounding"(I paraphrased this one) I just like to remain anonymous tbh. and I am pretty sure its going to be a killer 10 years in the 2020s and then by 30s probably will slow down.

I want a nominee manager for total anonymity.

This is a really sticky situation with a lot of questions from what did he do, what state is he is, you are in, etc.As far as your last statement regarding how picky the IRS is with LLC operating agreements - they don't see them and an anonymous structure would take care of that.Good luck!

On top of that, the anonymity aspect is a very powerful asset protection strategy for CA investors.

Hey there Jonathan, my opinion is that it is best to use a Traditional LLC (or your name) for purchasing and then transfer it into a Series w/anonymity.

A little pricey to set up but has the benefit of bidirectional anonymity and asset protection.