Unless you are getting a bank loan and are willing to accept higher interest rates and balloon payoffs, buying within an LLC is not a clear-cut decision.An LLC can be created very quickly and should costs under $1K, but you need to know there will be costs and time to maintain that LLC every year.  

Again, they're ok, everything is a la carte, but at the end of the day you have to be ok cutting services and planning on using exactly what they have forever. 

A huge number of properties we have looked at would have issues on this front.It can lead to an opportunity to improve the value of a property if you can buy it with an illegal area, get that area legalised and then sell on with a higher value that the bank would lend against, but it's not clear cut and it seems though that there are almost two levels of 'legalisation' - we were able to register all of the annex on the plans and could fully incorporate a portion of it but there is another portion that is too close to the back boundary wall that should only be used for things like storage and not ever for habitation. 2) During the purchase process be careful, amongst other issues with this property we had the situation where the seller's lawyer was not actually a lawyer (having been struck off).

They will under cut and do whatever to squeeze 3rd party sellers.

If you can find the right duplex, renting out one unit while living in the other can still help you cut down your housing costs a lot.

You're better off to just keep the deposit and cut your losses. 

For example, I am not really cut out for marketing and sales so I partnered with someone who is 10x better than me at it. 

That fee between the broker and the leasing agent is cut up and that amount varies.

Inevitably, there are some that are not cut out for the turbulence and want to sell after less than a year of ownership.

While it's exciting to cash in on a successful investment, the looming capital gains taxes can significantly cut into your profits.