The irony is most investors who form LLC's do not operate them correctly, fail to obtain appropriate types or amounts of insurance coverage, fail to understand their coverage exclusions, take short cuts and don't obtain permits, use unlicensed and uninsured vendors,  fail to execute contracts with same vendors, don't understand the mechanism of additional insured status, indemnification etc. and are actually more prone to claims and conflict with their LLC than the individual who does not own real estate in an LLC but understands these tools I mentioned.

We built out a Diligence tool that grabs data from multiple sources ( Paid and non-paid), aggregated together to give us data on multiple properties in that matter of minutes. 

If your lease includes this provision, I recommend issuing a lease violation notice for not allowing maintenance to enter and carry out essential repairs.  

He has had ~$1K worth of tools and material stolen, even after I warned him not to leave things there.The timeline has shifted over and over again.

Then you can use content tools and SEO tools from carrot to extend your website into new markets. 

@D KirkInspections are not a place to cut corners unless you  are very experienced and have all the tools.

BP has various tools to help you analyze your deals (rentals, flips, wholesale, etc). : https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators7.

So we would essentially need to move all of our belongings out and then back in a year later.2.

I do not completely buy into "value", we all have the same tools and marketing options.  

Are there any tools/strategies to calculate a high appreciation market vs high cash flow market?