More formal real estate meet ups/networking events sound a little weird to me.

My wife and I are both realtors and we're seeing areas that were formally gang-ridden and run-down start to slowly rise in values.

So all the asset protection purpose of your LLC will be voided (piercing the veil).Open a bank account for your LLC, update the contract with your property manager to mention your LLC as the client/owner of the property (and not you), make sure that you sign all documents for the LLC with your title for the LLC and not as an individual, update all insurances to put the LLC as primary insured, and possibly you as agent of the LLC as additional insured, do not commingle money, keep good bookkeeping and follow the formalities of the LLC operating agreement (members meeting; state filing; etc...) 

The vast majority do not have formal credit backgrounds.

@Jamila Thompson - While I have no trouble understanding where @Moises R Cosme is coming from, I'm a big proponent of partnerships, both formal and informal. 

., I think your lot might be to be at least 5000 sf) but there’s no harm in asking and asking the building department is a lot less formal than applying to the zoning board. 

(Please no "should have" judgement - we owned the place for a month with the AC working perfectly leading up to tenants coming in, and we had a formal inspection as part of the purchase process, of course.

If you don't notify them you can't evict until they get that formal notice.Just saw you said this was SC.

In a seller carryback or land contract carried by the Seller,if you default they must do a full foreclosure of at least publication, and sometimes a judicial foreclosure. 

I am somewhat curious if the point of continuing this discussion is try and be helpful, or if it is to continue it for the sake of doing so and to get the last word in.There is a major difference between creating a group or network of local investors and in creating a formal REIA club.