Everything else is just window dressing. 

There is no need to get fancy with LLCs, LLPs, and Corps if you are a small proprietor investor,  I have landlord property insurance on each property with high liability limits  and also an umbrella policy. 

I love how Greensboro is getting all fancy (I ate at this fancy, amazing taco place during my last visit).

In decent shape, but nothing fancy. 

Lesson learned: if a tenant looks messy with how they're dressed they probably are messy people.

I wonder what you chose.I tend to focus so heavily on getting everything clean and neat, and then dress them up later.

This is nothing .a general handyman can put some boarding in the sink floor , make some new doors , paint it to match  .then go to home  depot for modern stylish brushed nickel handles and it would look 1000x better with probably only 5-700$ of total work depending on how fancy you went . 

Repeat.I do have a spreadsheet (nothing fancy) that I export my transactions to monthly so I can track how each property is doing.

Today, this approach is known as saving $3 a day by not buying a cup of fancy coffee and investing the money instead to have much more money to enjoy at retirement.

Window dressing will not stop fines or jail time.