Chad Carson has not one, but two BiggerPockets books sharing their expertise:Retire Early with Real Estate The Small & Mighty Real Estate Investor Exploring questions in his books like:How many rentals do I need to retire?

Present day: I have money saved up in Canada and have been reading books, found BP and listening to podcasts, reading forums.

I have been listening to the podcasts and reading some of the books and am excited to finally feel comfortable enough in my vision to post here. 

I've dabbled in hard money for a few years on both sides of the transaction and here are the 3 types of people in the business.

Based on research it appears Zelle is the only option that does not have a transaction fee for landlords.I did not include maintenance as a category since this can be done easily in a spreadsheet, but all of the options actually had pretty good maintenance and expense tracking.For Tax Support, all of the tools met the minimum for being able to export the financial information. 

Read a few books about flipping, they spell out the details.

Short answer to your questions is if you have a properly set up LLC then all transactions (lease agreements, invoices, etc) are under the entity name.

I'm currently going through Pace Morby's book and video companion guide from the Bigger Pockets Store.

Scott's book on estimating rehab costs, it's a must read in this area: https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/the-book-on-estimat...In addition to that, I would check out my article on due diligence.

One thing to watch out for is the financing aspect of it - could be a hurdle getting a loan if the transaction is "non-arms length" - i.e. between "Friends" - might be worth looking at seller financing too