I currently use Avail for my two properties and its been pretty seamless for me.

I'm not an educator whatsoever but I can give you an overview of my wholesaling and flipping operation here in Central Florida.

When someone pays me for an LLC, they are mainly paying for creating the operating agreement that governs the operations of the LLC.

You are more than welcome to come, here's the link to sign up for reminders https://forms.gle/VhCj1bEbNndPcPYV7 Feel free to reach out with any questions, we run a flipping and wholesale operation here in Central Florida. 

Typically, the request is at least for the organizational documents, operating agreement and the IRS EIN number. 

Not only for the reasons you mention (easily manipulated, depending on format), but also have next to nothing to do with what your operations will look like.While I do agree that you should try to verify income, both through lease review, P&L, and if they will share: bank statements and tax filings, at the end of the day, I don't put a ton of value in seller financials, for many reasons.  

Travel expenses to look at potential investment properties are generally not tax-deductible unless you operate a real estate portfolio like a business. 2.

.- trusts - deeding each property to a separate land trust each and then the land trusts in turn grant beneficiary to an operating LLC.

It really depends on you and how involved you're willing to be, especially if any of your current at-large operators don't work out.

After operating the STR for the first year can we turn the STR into our primary residence for 2 years then sell and avoid capital gains tax and depreciation recapture instead of doing a 1031 exchange?