I would go with a company who has multiple properties under management (ideally over 500 to really get the benefits a scale, think cheaper maintenance visits, experience placing tenants, lots of investor experience, ability to find deals within the brokerage, massive marketing channels for properties, systems in place to handle problems, experience handling a massive amount of problems, discounts for bringing multiple properties to manage).Also, make sure your property manager is motivated, experienced, and growing! 

Trusts are typically done as part of a full estate plan that includes other documents to cover you in different situations like Wills, Powers of Attorney, Advance Health Care Directives, etc. 

Already seeing multiple offers in Reno on anything that's decent under $600K.  

I am in a similar situation as a Canadian looking to invest in the US.

I purchased a SF with cash in an LLC and now looking to pull cash out of the deal. The property is in Mississippi, purchase price was $120k with $30k rehab, ARV is $180ish.  I could put a mortgage on the property, I w...

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Hey @Hunter GibsonI am a local lender in the area and I've helped multiple investors in Cincinnati.

Well today getting 8% is historical norms with a diverse portfolio so I would take the $ today and as a GP would give the money back to investors in 100% of these situations.

You need to pick a much simpler situation to start with. 

You're actually in a very similar situation to where I was at personally about a year ago.