just curious) - Flat fee for advice or a small profit cut (5–10%) if she’s hands-on.

Unless you are getting a bank loan and are willing to accept higher interest rates and balloon payoffs, buying within an LLC is not a clear-cut decision.An LLC can be created very quickly and should costs under $1K, but you need to know there will be costs and time to maintain that LLC every year.  

After utilizing the Do Not Call Registry for phone numbers, my list is cut in half, to about 3,000.

So if you have $150,000 to invest you can make $9,000 annually.Most people will never retire from owning Real Estate unless they substantially cut their cost of living. 

It was a cut and dry project and since it was my first deal it was an easy entry having already been slightly remodeled.

Again, they're ok, everything is a la carte, but at the end of the day you have to be ok cutting services and planning on using exactly what they have forever. 

AI can be tricky to prove sometimes.I use cut/paste for questions that are asked every day.

If you can find the right duplex, renting out one unit while living in the other can still help you cut down your housing costs a lot.

Welcome to the steel city, I have been investing here for 7 years.

So true I mean rent free would be #1 goal but I can make do with half my living cut down .