I am getting into investing for a few reasons: flexibility, build diversity in investments and tax benefits. 

There's also the benefit of staying more hands-on with your property.

My goal is to own properties in the long term due to the number of benefits that come with it.

I'm sure one will chime in here, but I'm pretty sure an LLC is just a pass through entity, so it doesn't confer you any tax benefits.

If experience is the lone qualification, you can align with a good realtor and contractor and maintain far greater control along with benefiting from all of the upside.

I would expect a court to give tenant benefit of the doubt for anything not clearly defined.

It’s an amazing benefit we have that can help you get into a property with no money down.

You can also benefit from the substantial equity in your property.3.

Depreciation is going to still be offsetting cash flow quite a bit - when you accelerate depreciation, it doesn't technically do absolutely every depreciation item in year one, so there still is going to be quite a bit of depreciation to offset your cash flow.On top of all of this, the tax benefits largely are going to come in year one to offset your income.

Correct you need to buy as an investor, or if you buy with a partner that will be living there you can put them as the owner living there and do an FHA purchase/first time home buyer (if they do not have any other homes and using that benefit already).