For that 3 family ...You're going to have a few allocations. ... 

We allocate about $75 -$100 per door per month for those items and it seems to serve us pretty well.  

I allocate 7% of rents for repairs and maintenance however and set it aside in my savings.

I'm trying to boost my savings so I can get in the game quicker, when I came up with the idea of redirecting some of the funds I allocate to my 401K towards REI.Admittedly, the stock market craziness is what got me thinking, but in addition to that my employer matches up to 5% and I'm putting in 10%.

I store about 1/3 of my equity in Portfolio 14 there, half in real estate ventures, and around 10% in cash with the allocation varying from time to time.

That is easily a security.How the profits are allocated is not a defining part of rule.

I recommend allocating only a small portion of your available cash to invest in properties.

You could even write the check from your personal checkbook, credit contributed capital and debit the expense in each LLC if you like.In your example, as long as you've got the required support (billing), nobody's going to care how that expense gets allocated through the LLC's come tax time.While, I too, can proudly declare I'm not a Lawyer, or a CPA, I do work in large companies, and have done cash accounting and inter-company accounting with boatloads of legal entities in multiple countries, holding companies and the like.

If you had $1000.00 a month to spend on marketing and you are only intersted in houses with a good deal of equity how would you allocate your resources?

How are rooms allocated?