If you are afraid of the cost of defense, an LLC won't help you.

This isn't meant to be a defense of wholesalers or wholesaling - some folks have no issue with wholesalers and others think we're all scum.  

Do you need a guy to file probate, quiet title, foreclosure defense, commercial litigation?

He will be speaking on behalf of all four of our groups: Landlord Legal Defense Fund, Landlords Association of Eastern Jackson County (LAEJC), KC Landlords Inc., and Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors (MAREI).ON TUES Sept 6th at 5:30 PM: We will meet as a group in the north parking lot in front of Independence City Hall, 111 East Maple, corner of Noland Road and Truman Road.

It would not be too defensive about this but get a loan Pre-qualification letter from a lender and have it state how long it will take to make a closing and a maximum amount. 

(c) In an action for possession based upon nonpayment of rent in which the tenant asserts a defense to possession based upon the landlord's alleged breach of the warranty of habitability, upon the filing of the tenant's answer the court shall order the tenant to pay into the registry of the court all or part of the rent accrued after due consideration of expenses already incurred by the tenant based upon the landlord's breach of the warranty of habitability.

You have to start playing defense and offense with your finances.

I'm not sure if I need a defense lawyer or a real estate lawyer...

And in your defense the GC should have at the very least acknowledged receipt of the invoice and given a timetable for payment. 

Failure to do so enables the tenant to plead ignorance of the law as a defense."