Quote from @Jaycee Greene: it all depends on the credit scores, but consumer mortgages tend to have lower interest rates than commercial loans.

Continuous participation.This is great if you are talking about an SMB with effectively connected Real Estate.Note rental activity is considered passive unless you meet the RE Pro threshold of 750 hours and more than 1/2 your time.This is the conundrum for passive real estate investors.If you have a full-time job or a large, time-consuming business it can be difficult or impossible to qualify.A huge loss from depreciation if you have one LP investment isn’t going to do anything for you.

I know it appears costly and timing consuming, but not doing your diligence will cost you more.

When the flat valleys were consumed by people, they like idiots, Developers  started building where the fire danger was higher.

CA's Secretary of State forms list the name and address of either a manager or member, so unless you're hiring a third party to serve as manager of your LLC, anonymity is very hard to achieve once filing publicly in CA.As to the probate part, you're right that going through a court probate is a huge hassle, including being expensive and time consuming. 

I highly suspect you folks have never ever been through any kind of civil business litigation and have no clue how expensive and time consuming it can be..

It's a "rigged" system of consumer psychology, the monthly statement payor system. 

If you want to learn how to best edit and post videos for your niche/business/market...start by searching for those things and consuming the info you find.

This negative position can consume years of cash flow to recover.

It can be difficult and time consuming to find every possible entry point but Section 8 is going to tell you that it's your responsibility to eliminate entry points.