Feel free to reach out if you need assistance. 

I wasn't sure if other people at this stage when starting out feel the same way.

If you are interested, reply and I will DM zoom invite.Our hope is to get more people involved, share our knowledge, get feedback and improve our process even more!

Feel free to reach out

It's a great place to meet some locals with intimate knowledge of the Youngstown market.

I have a couple of other investors doing this too and we meet often to share knowledge, you may join us if close.By the way, I will follow all recommendations as described by other. 

Some you will like and some are very 'pitchy' selling all kinds of classes and junk.Meeting people in person and getting to know them and what they do will help increase your knowledge that much more.

These answers may seem obvious to you all, but remember-- I've never done this before, so it feels like a huge unknown risk.

A lease is the way YOU want to conduct your rental so choosing one randomly/ already done may not be correct for you.Resident screening is very important but there are state laws and even federal laws (disparate impact as an example) that you want to be careful about.Having a few key maintenance people is very important as well because that is an area of great concern to the resident.I could go on but feel free to ask more questions. 

I feel I need to protect myself and get the property to be owned by an LLC...But I need STEP BY STEP instructions including how to start the LLC.