I must abide by the law and trust that mandate enforcement occurs even though I don’t see signs of it.

At my level of properties, I don’t think the price per month justifies joining Buildium

If you do not have experience with this, I would highly recommend getting advice/assistance from someone that you trust in the business.   

Just keep in mind, the costs of setting up and maintaining an LLC and the bank account that goes with it, not exorbitant but important to consider.I'm not a CPA or an attorney, but I would suggest taking the time to diligently put together a trusted team to facilitate your long and successful investment journey!

From what I'm reading we don't lose our tax exemption in a trust, but you're not protected like an LLC.

Excited about learning from those doing it at a much higher level than me, and networking and educational opportunities seem excellent as well!

As a general rule of thumb if the property has a ground level commercial requirement in order to show sufficient hardship to seek a residential use change the property should be located in a location that is not conducive to commercial use i.e residential street, close but not as marketable as properties located on neighborhood's primary commercial corridor etc. 

I would say these are not deals for a retail investor.Regarding investing in syndications, its really a personal choice of being passive and trusting people when real estate is not your specialty - similar to stocks - I do not manage my stock portfolio because I am clueless on it and my wife is 1000x smarter than I am and manages it.

The only way you can break that log jam right now is severely lowered fed rates, but the level of federal debt is such that they're in a no-win situation because there's going to be little appetite these days for buying 1% fed notes from overseas.The fed rates were kept too low for too long.

With the LLC my mom just “does business as” my LLC because I trusted her but I also got her to do that because the legal age in Alabama (where i’m from) is 19.