@Richard Bautista your gut is serving you well, saying something feels off here. 

LLC's serve a few purposes.

Part of lead flow on BP I suspect also has to do with the market you serve and the BP audience.

Quote from @Nicholas L.: @John Leeagree with being picky with where you live and your primary residence. 

Of course, you can do this in a stand-alone rental, but numbers are incredibly tight for house hackers now, so I thought it would be better served in this forum.Let's take a four-family where you house hack one of the units:1.

Not answering a legitimate question, when making a claim, can be self serving and can lead people to believe the claim is false. 

Gotta find someone with pricing that can serve basic returns!

I’m sure someone will tell you that you can transfer title of the house after closing, but what purpose would that serve?

If you are looking at it as a second home, also be happy with a breakeven scenario - afterall it will still serve as a future investment.There are calculators as @John Underwood said, on here and elsewhere. 

Both are for tracking income/expense and generate reports (P&L, cash flow, but not balance sheet) only, not for listing, screening, collecting rent.