Is incorporating my business a natural first step before I look into actually buying a rental property from a personal liability perspective?

Not sure about their requirement that I incorporate.

Robert,If I can figure out a way to incorporate the lawn care into the rent here in Florida, I do it!

Even better if they have experience working with investors that have similar goals and strategies that you want to incorporate. 

@Tom Shallcross Thanks for the advise, I plan to incorporate your ideas into my goal setting.

Make sure you’ve incorporated repairs, capex, vacancies, etc. into your cash flow numbers.

. - Depending on what you're wanting to do with the home, there are several traditional options that you can explore to incorporate your upgrades into your mortgage.

Your post is not clear on if you are in the city of San Diego, some other city in San Diego county, or incorporated area.I am assuming zoning already allows someone to legally live in RVs on the property. 

But if you can find a way to incorporate common financial sense, you’ll not only thank yourself later but even be able to afford to buy yourself an expensive treat!

The trust and the LLC are the owner of the asset/real estate, so even in the scenario that they guess, they guess wrong.As you grow, or you include more partners, you should be incorporating more pillars to support the business that you are taking part in.