The risk is very small from what is seen and I fear that in those cases it is not difficult for a lawyer to pierce the vail due to most possibly being poorly set up.Assuming one is a competent landlord investor and their property is properly maintained there is little risk aside from frivolous suits and investors in highly litigious states where the courts support ridiculous law suits.

We have proced that out but the quotes we are getting are ridiculous.

Either that, or their markets are extremely inefficient and my market is ridiculously efficient.If I were you, what would I do differently? 

Since the market in CA is ridiculously expensive, I am looking towards investing in multi-family properties out of state.

The legal protection angle is the separation of assets into individual children companies which a typical LLC does not do, so all your property in the LLC is then subject to a judgment, unless you get a separate LLC for each property which is expensive and the maintenance cost of each LLC is ridiculous. 

Pay someone off Craigslist to just camp-out on her sidewalk with a ridiculous sign, and when she asks who hired him, have him tell her it was the neighbor on the opposite side of her. 

VA loan is awesome however I personally feel as though home prices and rentals are ridiculous and unless you're throwing down a decent downpayment or staying here long term, it's not worth it.

But some of this is ridiculous. 

I'm shocked you found a place in Boston and can still afford a PM, prices are ridiculous in Boston right now

We believed the suggestion from Morris is ridiculous and have these two ideas for legal consulting, we are Canadian, don't really know US laws, just from some common sense and general knowledge about laws: 1)Indy Jax (Ocean Pointe) only shows up on the deed, no document between them and us, it seems there is no ground we can sue them, right?