The LLC would essentially serve as a business checking account to collect rental payments from your roommates/tenants and potential write-offs for expenses such as property repairs/maintenance.

You may not like their current deals/offerings, but I would call each of them and let them know what you are looking for - essentially your "buy box."

Aside from the George Foreman Grill (yeah, those things are awesome right) celebritism for sales is historically a rule of thumb to gauge hokum not quality.Who knows, maybe Pace is "different", we will see.  

A good GC is essential, especially for remote projects.

The penny pinching and essentially slum lording of STR's at least in my experience is over. 

Having a team in place is essential to long-distance investing.

The judge is not providing justice to you; he's coaching the tenant, who is clearly violating the contract and essentially stealing from you.

When 99% of transactions have commissions above 2%, it's essentially a fixed rate, not a truly negotiable one.I respectfully disagree with the concern about "buyers that don't have money to pay a commission to buyer agents."

Ive asked about getting essentially T-12 type info on the assets, but that hasnt been provided thus far.

There are a number of meetups in Sacramento and we have been coordinating the dates among hosts so that there is no overlap - I run the West Sacramento Meetup that @Ben Howard mentioned (we gather every 4th Tuesday of the month).Here is a list of meetups that we're in collaboration with (they are all based on an abundance mindset that we have here on BP)- 1st Tuesday - REI Connect @ Roseville Meetup (reach out to @Nicole Masters)- 3rd Tuesday - Investor Mixer @ Crawdads on the River- 3rd Thursday - Folsom Out of Bounds (dates may shift a bit)- 3rd or 4th Wednesday - Real Estate Round Table (CH Cafe & Grill) - they recently relaunched and stabilizing the schedule- 4th Tuesday - West Sacramento Real Estate MeetupI'm working on putting together an easy to access list that Sacramento investors can refer to.