I've paid a little on mine but not consistently since it hasn't been mandatory yet(I'm a civil engineer major btw).

If there has been a death of an owner, I can think of several reasons why a lis pendens might have been filed.Lis pendens is a legal method to cloud title by filing notice of on going litigation relating to real property in deed records.

I graduated from Iowa State with my Masters in Civil Engineering 3 years ago. 

And while setting it up is fairly easy, maintaining complete separation of money (separate bank accounts, credit cards, money draws and deposits) can be rather difficult - any mistakes could disregard LLC status in events of litigation.

You should have some kind of forced buy/sell mechanism so that you don't have to resort to litigation to split up the business.  

The Texas Rules of Civil Procedure require sales be held on the first Tuesday of the month‚ between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at a place designated by the Commissioner’s Court.

For California residents, an LLC becomes expensive at $800/yr in franchise tax and still everything is in one "bucket" for litigation.

@David Brown  @Scott Steffekhttps://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2016/lr23451.htm if you read this.. this company started in the same manner that I see happening right now with the morris/Oceanpointe  Clatfelter actually came to my Oregon office and pitched me to help finance and provide product for them.I told him straight away.. you guys are buying the cheapest homes in the hood  INDY and KC .. your offering rental guarantees and your going to go broke.. well sure enough they did the same thing that is playing out here.. when the properties never got rehabbed and they were still paying rent ( acusations by others that Is the case with MOrris/Oceanpointe )  they then had to start raising money to keep from defaulting so then you go down this slippery slope ..

Contact a local civil engineer.

. :)But your right you don't have all the folks get on her who do poorly in real estate people just don't talk about it the same.. the closest we have come is the Morris/oceanpointe threads of some really really bad operators it took a lot of guts for those folks to get on BP and say hey I fell for the videos and the freedom number sent in 60k in cash and now all I have is a home never rehabbed and vacant.. although in my personal opinion it more than a civil matter.