Unless you are getting a bank loan and are willing to accept higher interest rates and balloon payoffs, buying within an LLC is not a clear-cut decision.An LLC can be created very quickly and should costs under $1K, but you need to know there will be costs and time to maintain that LLC every year.  

If you are taking about dropping a million cash into properties each year, then yes you are going to want to have some type of reasonable corporate structure, but if you're talking about 25% down 100 grand properties with bank notes, all you really need is some decent insurance.

Make sure to get fairly fast internet if you'll host a lot of guests. 

We host a monthly investor meetup, and there are many others like it...

When the market was slower we even worked directly with the REO bank for the properties and soem of them would do portfolio loans on their own assets. 

Have you called your bank/servicer to talk about your options? 

@James HumphreyI would suggest speaking to local banks, and credit unions.

If you can find smaller local banks in the market you pick they may have more unique products that they keep on their balance sheet or try and do the 5% down conventional on a 4-unit  FHA's self-sufficiency test applies to both 3 and 4-unit properties.

Don't bank on them integrating with new technologies any time soon.Guesty for Pros: This is expensive but does have the most support. 

I agree but I don't understand how they can logically charge a host.