Be real subtle and feel them out on what they are going to do with the cash.

It is just about what flavor of ice cream you love and the occasional bad taste you can stomach from it, keep going, and be happy still.    

He even added a subtle threat in the email that he felt it would be best for both parties so that down the road I wouldn't "Incur further costs", which I took to mean, agree to this or I will make your life a living hell the entire time we're here. 

Since I am an investor, the 2nd is not worth anything to me and is really a club designed to make the owner far more money.The point is, they all have something they are selling and some flavor of specialty.

This means you can fly out at a decent time and back same day if you had to all the while being able to take care of whatever needed to be done.Once you add in layovers and and eastern time you're wasting an entire day just in travel and that adds up.You also have the subtle nuances that vary by location in terms of tenants rights vs landlord rights...Lastly, ever market has its own culture and some will fit you're personality better than others.

If that is the case, and you still want an LLC, I would think paperwork headaches and filing costs would vastly outweigh any subtle advantage of one state over another.   

Although real estate laws go back to the feudal times in England and are fairly consistent there can be and are subtle and major differences from state to state.Do I need a college education to buy real estate without cash or credit?

I have had a couple that I moved along as things went, but that was also a subtle hint that I wanted to overhaul the unit or lose the tenant. 

@Ann Bellamy - very good point as well about the different flavors of REIA, I'm sure that's true.

L/C and L/O take on different flavors in different areas of the country.