Anonymity 3.Tax advantageThanks for your advice!!

Your leases signed by the PM should have been signed Joe Doe as agent for your name.If you were attempting to keep in anonymous background, then a new lease is the consequence of allowing the PM total signature authority. 

An LLC does not automatically protect your personal assets if something goes wrong - look up piercing the veil.That said, I believe an LLC can provide a limited degree of anonymity if that's what you desire.

I ask questions via anonymous CL e-mail (then to phone after, maybe) and pre-screen down to a few applicants.  

Might be good to request an inspection yourself anonymously.

The only legal advice you should take from any anonymous stranger on the internet is, "Call your lawyer."

You can be a fair, honest owner/landlord, but maintain a wall of separation and anonymity.  

One of the nice things, or bad things, about anonymous posts on the inter web is that we can be brutally honest with our opinions without really caring about how it is received.

And if they ask you point blank for the name and contact info for the owner, you just say, "Sorry, she insists on staying anonymous."  

(another anonymous tactic is a little shout out at 11 pm keep it down or we are calling the cops)Here you can see the police log and you can see who called and that is public record but most people don't know that even so I would not lie about calling.