Quote from @Ashwani Singh: Has anyone got an excel sheet that is good to maintain your month by month rental property management expenses and income?

It happens to be one of the easier businesses to run, but if you think of it like investing in stocks you're not going to do well.

To thrive in real estate investing, you must maintain a firm grip on your finances.

Like Mija noted, they cost real money and time to maintain, and I simply was not deriving enough value from either.I had no intention of GC-ing jobs for clients, which is about all it would have allowed me to do that I can't do already.  

We are hoping to avoid doing any sort of partnership and maintain a single member LLC, but searching online hasn't been fruitful.

You can't sell a portion of a property like you can sell portions of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc.

Unless you are getting a bank loan and are willing to accept higher interest rates and balloon payoffs, buying within an LLC is not a clear-cut decision.An LLC can be created very quickly and should costs under $1K, but you need to know there will be costs and time to maintain that LLC every year.  

The only “control” an investor has when he invests in REITS, (or any stocks for that matter), mutual funds, real estate syndications, whether debt or equity, or minority shares in a business, is whether to keep or to sell his investment, and often not even that.  

If you sell, will you invest the proceeds in something else for example the stock market?

Responding to a question about Political impacts and Self-Storage in a discussion.From a political standpoint, don't see a change in the stock market.