@Bryan Moynihan In the grand scheme of things, $1,500 is cheap insurance to have a local professional do it and save you if someone were to sue the LLC (it is more common than you think) DO NOT DIY your LLC docs.

This is not a get-rich-quick scheme.

This 2021 Certificate of Existence Scheme is explicitly detailed on the NC SOS web site, which says. 

Net worth doesn't actually mean a whole lot in the day to day grand scheme of things.

Do a Revenue scheme. 

I've gone from bright white to a duo-tone scheme that adds a more modern touch to these old units.I guess I'm more asking if upgrading floors from cheap carpet to composite or laminate floors or upgrading the cheap particle board cabinets be wasted effort in a class C property?  

I had already decided I was ok with having my SFH empty over the winter, it would give me time to do a little work on it...yeah, I will never make back the money I have already "lost" on it being empty before I "inherited" it, so a few months was nothing in the grand scheme of things. 

Lenders modified their loan documents years ago to disallow all these “nothing down” schemes which depend on “outside of closing” deals. 

In the grand scheme of things it was more frustrating that anything, we certainly didn't need the funds to keep our heads above water.  

The cost is very minimal in the whole scheme of things.