Alternatively, look up the owners of local self-storage places in your area and reach out to them.Best!

As a high income earner, there are alternate routes that garnish high returns than LTRs, are more passive (nothing is truly passive) than both LTRs and STRs, AND expose you too much less liability.

Alternatively, an engineer or architect could do the whole thing.

@Darius TracyPlan Administrator of the TSP has list of investment options available for that plan, and it is always confined to the stock market, they would not allow alternative investment options such as real estate.

Alternatively, you can work with a CPA who is also a Certified Acceptance Agent (CAA) and this saves you from having to mail original documents to the IRS.

Real estate is a numbers game, and success requires a pickup truck, and a willingness to get very very dirty.   

For example, we have a tenant where one gets a small disability check and the other is a short haul truck driver. 

an alternative to cozy is Zelle.  

The problem is, we’re college students who alternate between working and attending school.

That would be correct if OP's father has made or intends to make an S election for the LLC.Since OP did not specify tax status of the SMLLC, we're left to assume no alternate election was made, and the LLC carries the default tax status: 'Disregarded Entity'.A DRE should not be issuing W-2s or 1099s to its owner as it's effectively dissolved for federal income tax purposes and there's no distinction between the owner and the LLC.