Pro Tip: Airbnb provides a level of protection if you end up with a "problem" tenant.

Akron is not LL friendly, they were the first in NE Ohio to pass a rental registration ordinance (in the 90s), in 2021 added source of income as a protected class - so you can no longer rule out S8 applicants, and passed STR registration last October (and nearly a year later still haven't been able to enact anything).  

You might want to consider Columbus OH - evictions are quick and won't take 12 months and we have good landlord protection laws.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):- https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/4.

An LLC does not provide much legal protection, it acts as a legal firewall to separate assets.

It does feel like there is likely a major market correction coming, but due to limited inventory of vacation-rentable units in Maui I feel like I should be somewhat more protected from the effects of said recession.

Full disclosure...our development arm and our lending arm JV and Consult with investors with less experience to ensure the downside risk of their investment is protected.

She didn’t know what caused the fall, but said it’s the reason for her memory problems.The meeting, which was conducted by telephone, was cut short after Van Gundy’s lawyer said she suffered two seizures.Multiple investors have said they loaned hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy and sell mobile homes only to have Van Gundy and her company — Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. — renege on principal and interest payments.

I'm biased and can provide reasons and data to show that using an agent will protect you, get you more money, less stress and so on.The reality is you can do it yourself, but tenants generally don't cooperate with showings and that causes lots of problems for buyer to access the unit to show, inspections, appraisals etc.

and it isn't about protection from defaulting...