You have to have the personal protection either way, at which point the LLC is less important.An accountant once warned me to be careful about using the LLC to manage the properties if they are not owned by the LLC because it could potentially trigger taxable events. 

You can not install key locks on bedroom doors.In Jersey Heights, the rent of old building  is around $1600/month for a 2 bedroom apartment, around $1800 for 3 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment.

You will get a lot of opinions on whether to own in your personal name vs. the LLC - be aware though that if you transfer them to your LLC now, you will trigger transfer tax which can be quite substantial.Going forward it would certainly recommend setting up LLCs to purchase your properties. 

Every three months my handyman is there replacing or fixing the door locks.  

First, will your lender trigger a due on sales clause?

Do you lock my interest rate and when?

Find a good agent and good lender, run some numbers, see homes and pull the trigger.

Am I correct to assume this is very similar to seller financing however without title transfer since there's underlying debt he doesn't want to trigger due on sale clause?

You could also forward to a personal address, but the address forwarding triggers address updates for some senders.

Thankfully before I ended up pulling the trigger, someone shared the whistleblower article on these forums...