and it’s 2 houses, 1 main and 1 rental / grandmother suite in the back.  

This won't be my main strategy, I have a marketing budget I am utilizing but I am thinking about doing this as well, like you said, only to distressed properties that are listed.

1 Main LLC to purchase the asset.Then there’s A & B shares.Each investor uses their own LLC to invest so ultimately it’s multip LLCs.Hopefully that helps.Dino

You have no choice but to rent to sevice members in this area. 

That's not a wise choice.

I mainly use Lowes & Home Depot as well, but if I see deals at others places, I'm not afraid to save some money.  

Love it mainly because they have an amazing app for tenants (which actually seems a bit more complete than the landlord app so far) that even has features for tenants to use with roommates.

Don't have a real choice to drop them. 

The only choice you have is deciding with how much dignity this is going to happen.I haven't had any squatting issues in buying properties.

Main focus at this point is to soak in as much as I can on the topic of RE investing, specifically multi family while at the same time connecting with as many investors as possible.