It's not that hard to wander into a prohibited transaction and blow up the account.I'm of the opinion that it's generally more beneficial from a tax perspective to hold real estate outside of retirement accounts when we consider the long-term lifecycle and potential tax mitigation strategies. 

I let two move out, breaking their lease and keeping their security deposits.

However, the great thing about real estate is that, over time, many mistakes can be mitigated or smoothed out over time through appreciation or rent increases.

What can you do to mitigate risk when hiring a new contractor for the first time?

If your dealing with occupancy issues associated with moratorium, I highly suggest getting with a pro at mitigating such items IN a moratorium environment.

Yes, but the point is that with an HOA you literally don't have any control, so you're not able to mitigate or remediate the problems and the financial loss.

LMP is a program that assists landlords with affordable housing tenants.  The idea is that the state understands that there is more risk in affordable housing (damages, unpaid rent, legal costs, etc.) and will help ou...

However, the cost could be somewhat mitigated by opting for fewer points and a higher rate in the first refinance (to the extent that the lender offers the option), knowing that you'll only be paying that rate for a few months.Has anyone actually done this?

Basically in my opinion multifamily gives better cash flow (generally) and better rich mitigation (2 units instead of one) and single family give better appreciation (obviously dependent on the market)

Have one of the partners purchase under their name with plans to quit claim the property to the LLC or just hold an umbrella policy for that person to mitigate liability.