The information you receive is geared to motivating you to purchase additional services, at a large price.

I believe it is a large class A rental apartment complex. 

You might consider syndications (large apartments with other investors) then, although you have to be really picky & cautious these days. 

However, there seems to have been a very large drop starting at the end of last year, that I have personally and anecdotally observed but I'm not alone.

This boils down to most investors who concern themselves with LLC formation and asset protection inability to articulate what exactly they are protecting against.

There are plenty of reasons to title your real estate in LLC's but those who approach entity formation with anonymity as the objective are mistaken and usually complicate the entity formation process unnecessarily. 2.

Lori and I chatted some more and she has 30 plus years of doing retail owner occ RE sales and managed a large C 21 office at one time.

Be very very careful with a guy like this....But to answer your question - No you cannot dodge the reporting of a large sum of money to a Contractor.

I even had a buyer lined up for the place as well for when the repairs / renovations were atleast 50% or more done.Also forgot to mention that their own system often has wrong or outdated info on the properties as well.As you can see I could go on but I dont think a book is needed haha, but this should give a good exampleSorry for the long post and poor formatting on it

I would think you would need a pretty large bankroll to start with this as presumably you would take over any mortgage payments and maintenance and have no income coming in from it.