Many months of costly vacancy, local market rent & resale deteriation, special assessments, property taxes and maintanance fees suggest a quick sale would have been the wise thing to do 2 years ago.

Think: a coffee station stocked with local beans or a reading nook with plenty of natural light.

If you want to only do PM I'd recommend just looking on LinkedIn, or Indeed and applying for local apartment communities.  

So, comps can help with figuring out local cap rates, then you need the income from the property to determine a value.

Go to BUILD YOUR TEAM at the top of the screen and look for local investors or meetups in your area.

You’ll likely need to look beyond the city limits (in areas that are still close enough to the city to benefit from its local economic tailwinds) if you want to find deals that pencil out.

I would recommend shopping around, especially with a local mortgage broker.

A few years later, I hired a local Wyoming attorney to create a living trust.

When I ask others at my local meet ups they just reply with "I've been doing it for a while" or "lots of practice."

The LLC isn't the important part, it's the operating agreement- you should defintiely hire an excellent and local attorney to do that for you.