Yes I attended the 3 day and I also attending once of the expensive classes with a friend for paid for a series of extra education to the tune of $15K or so.   

A living trust can be a great tool to not only let you dictate the future of your hard earned real estate portfolio while you are still alive but can help reduce estate taxes, ensure a step-up in basis of your properties to eliminate or reduce capital gains and avoid reassessment of your properties when you die so there won’t be a large increase in property taxes.Long story short, please go see an estate planning attorney!

You can pay extra to receive it in 3 days though. 

In my opinion, the little extra work and couple hours of labor is well worth it.

Sure - investors in bitcoin may have been earning a significantly better return over the past year, but real estate has exponentially more proven years of proven investment performance.

If the business is not making any money then the value is generally on the equipment etc. for liquidation and that is usually 10 to 25 cents on the dollar.1,500,000 purchase price for a business breaking even is a pipe dream.Generally sellers sell on 3 times profit earnings so the business would need to be throwing off 500k profit a year after expenses.

The article compared a scenario in which an investor would own a few properties outright to generate the same income that someone who has many cash flowing properties financed would earn.

@Caleb Heimsoth and @Michael Guzik if an LLC isn't created from the start then won't it be a extra time & money converting the owner on the pre-LLC properties title & docs? 

That is about the only other option if a barn door wont work...not recommending it but there are some very pretty curtains and if you mount the hardware extra wide inside the room the tenants can leave it fully open except when company comes.

If I fund the reno (during my lease period) and I don't end up purchasing the property, I will be out a great deal of money without receiving the reward of my extra investment.