Don't trust a company - especially not some large nationwide corporation, which employs people you have to track down!

If you haven't followed solid corporate practices, the lawyers get to go after your other assets too.  

So if the landlord only owns one four-plex, or two duplexes, or a single and triplex, and the landlord is a natural person (not a corporation or partnership), or the landlord is an LLC in which all members are natural persons (no corporate or partnership members in the LLC), the landlord can still require two month’s rent as security deposit.So for those CA investors who invest in properties with four rentals or less, and place each rental property into its own LLC, and the LLC members are all natural persons, those investors can continue to require two month’s rent as security deposit.

Simple answer, yes these are all normal things to utilize.However, as to how they are used - that will depend entirely on where you are going and what you are trying to accomplish.For tax purposes, given it is generally a bad idea to use an S-Corp or C-Corp for holding real estate, any other tax structure will have absolutely no difference from one another - IE an LLC taxed as a partnership, an LLC wholly owned by you and disregarded for tax purposes, owning directly, or owning through a revocable trust - all of these have the exact same tax result at the end of the day.

As part of the Biden/Harris plan to boost housing affordability, the White House is proposing a 5% maximum annual rental rate increase for corporate landlords (or forfeit federal tax breaks).Single-family rents rise faster.

So. it’s not uncommon to request proof of rent depositsvia bank statements and corporate/LLC tax returns.

They actually have contracts with corporate clients and so your pool of prospective renters are higher.

Further, LLC s have far fewer maintenance requirements than corporations due to ensure that the “entity veil” is not pierced.  

I have this discussion frequently with my Corporate clients that always seem to borrow a little from the corp and never pay it back. 

Corporate leasing through your business will not work either w apt complexes that will do them because they have a clause that the unit(s) are to be used by company employees only.