When I have my atty incorporate the LLCs, he simply designates them at the time of filing as disregarded entities for filing purposes, and then the EINs will just be our SSNs?

There is indeed a vault, and I was planning on that being incorporated into the use (e.g. storage).

Granted the numbers need to work still before they approve it, if you are losing money with the two loans incorporated into the analysis that smaller bank probably wont agree to the deal.

I've read that it's beneficial to incorporate your LLC in Delaware or Nevada.

@Keena ClarkLos Angeles County is made up of many jurisdictions for example: Incorporated Cities have their own governments (city council) that pass local laws called municipal codes so if you were in the City of blank, then you would look under that cities municipal codes to find their building codes and building violations. 

We have talked about incorporating a Holding Company for our investing because we are going to be purchasing commercial multi-family (6+ Units) and it will be a better tax structure for us.Hopefully this helps and I'm glad you found some inspiration in this!

Here is a graphic that shows what an asset protection plan "looks" like and it will be as complicated as the amount of assets it protects.

lolThere is a definite advantage to use DSCR products and its important to incorporate all loan products into your tool box including conventional, DSCR gross income products, private/hard money, actual commercial DSCR product, or other alternate doc products so that when the need arises you'll be using the most efficient tool for the job.The downside I see for these gross  income DSCR products are that they typically have 3-5 year PPP or prepayment penalities and you can raise your rate or pay points to get rid of them but you gotta be careful with those.

The idea here is to incorporate Real Estate investing with Fiduciary Financial Planning, to maximize investment dollars in all areas of the investor's financial journey (retirement planning, college savings, tax planning, etc) in addition to real estate investing. 

I am going to try to incorporate some of your suggestions into the blog series.