The "What" isn't as important as simply pulling the trigger on SOMETHING. 

Your attorney will tell you that you should put it in an LLC, but then will tell you that you risk triggering the "due on sales" clause. 

In a nutshell, each time a tenant moves in (water service request triggers it), a city inspector comes out and inspects your property. 

Having not known everything I had learned in the previous year from Bigger Pockets and getting to know my market by searching so meticulously, I highly doubt I would've had the confidence to pull the trigger so quickly. 

I have not jumped into REI as of yet (difficult to pull the trigger).

To address your other points, I was planning on doing a double close in this case, having the seller put the deed in escrow which would trigger the sale on the B to C transaction, paying her off.

Why would you trigger a due on sale?

It's almost something they use which tells them... hey... it meets a number I had in my head and that means I pull the trigger!

Some roaches realize an enzyme when they die that triggers other around them to breed.You'll want to find a bate product which they will eat, take back to their dwelling, and kill their entire family LOLThese are actually more environmentally friendly as well. 

We were now a contemporary, but the appraiser refused to analyze it that way - in spite of the stone cold facts in front of him.I triggered a Tidewater challenge and got him to raise his value by $15,000.