Or, ya know, just spend the next 140 hours trying to get a self-study law education followed by another few hundred hours self-study to sort out how to avoid repeating the situation.That's the reality of it all. 

It's soul-crushing, and no one should spend the bulk of their lives dreading going to work.

One thermostat controls BOTH units currently.

@Chris Lin,Thank you very much for spending time with me on the phone last night. 

I end up spending 20k more than I expected.

I want to get control of the properties, remodel and furnish, while protecting this investment.  

Hi Robert, I always look at the rehab and deciding what I can do vs the opportunity cost of spending my time elsewhere.

I just didn’t like that feeling of someone else having control of my money. 

But to me that would be a spending problem, not an income problem. 

You can spend as little as $100 to form an LLC, or you could use an attorney and spend $1,000 or more.