If you found a few handymen you could rely on, and make a trip out there for a few days to get things set up with shopping, decorating, and furnishing the STR that would remove the red flag of the property manager, and significantly boost your material participation hours to clear one of the thresholds.

I'd sell #1, even if you have to take a loss on your equity.The market does go up over time, but most markets seem to be stagnant right now, so when does that change?   

It's all about risk in the event of a lawsuit, which can also usually be covered by insurance.- If you decide to have an LLC for each property, creating a Management LLC that all the other LLCs "hire" to run their books, will allow you to only require a bank accont for the Management LLC.2) You may not be able to do a Trust.

Dan, Steve, click on each other and the others profile will come up.

Building appraised out at $1.5M and I ended up leaving a small amout in the project (~$90k).

I wanted to stay in the same county that I grew up in.

Since agency loans don't allow you to put the loan in an LLC, ask your wife this. 

Has anyone used any of the apps that allow the tenants to split payments, but still send the rent to you as a single payment? 

We use a conversational AI and appointment setting platform in follow up, outbound, and after hours lead intake.

If and when someone, or a reliable company comes up with a deal to fully manage a single room rental property for me then I’ll look at the profitability, ROI, and risk and consider it.