If you don't have enough income to satisfy the RMD, you may have to liquidate the assets or distribute them to yourself as "in-kind distribution". 

@Schaan Donaldson this would be a prohibited transaction and could cause the entire IRS to become a distribution triggering penalties and taxes.  

To give you a bit of background, I know very little about bookkeeping beyond managing my budget for the last three decades (ugh), so this is all pretty new to me.Here’s my current setup:I’ve had a property management company using AppFolio to handle the heavy lifting – rent collection, owner distributions, expenses, and the whole shebang.

This would offset some of your payment and when you move out you'll have risk distribution from multiple tenants.

Do you have a note, you can discontinue distributions as an example?

Placing your real estate in LLC's is truthfully a greater business planning tool than the benefits derived for asset protection.

I'm worried, I was told to wait 6 months for distributions and we are now heading into May and $0 has been distributed.

They would label them as bad if they paused distributions or issued a capital call.  

or, can I just pay the company and keep the income in the company and then pay the shareholders (me), dividends, or the owners (me) distributions?

My umbrella policy is far greater than what most people need and far more costly but it is distributed across all my units and includes a fleet of vehicles and other toys.