@Cody L.Wasn’t trying to argue at all!

I know some people argue against structuring in favor of insurance, but many real estate related lawsuits are not covered by insurance, so you are left to defend yourself. 

No one on this site has dealt with every bank, so no one can say what XYZ Bank in Ny would do as opposed to ABC bank in AR!

If you say "ABC Title Company on 43rd St" you are going to make them feel much more comfortable than saying "oh, I typed it up myself".There are a lot of places to get contracts, especially for Cali.

Another issue is that in some areas, your LLC may be seen as a property manager company leasing and requiring a real estate brokerage license (this can be argued).

Of course you'll get some people that will argue the double digit statement but I can show you these numbers.

They may have more upside.Of course, I and others could argue the opposite will happen.

If you run an IRR analysis on the example parameters you provided above, you get the following:Yup, your compounded annual rate of return needed to hit this investment target ($131K return off $11K investment over 30 years) is 8.60%.While I'm not a huge fan of the stock market, the fact is that these returns are pretty commensurate with what you'd get in a diversified stock porfolio (based on historical averages), and there's no argument that you'll do a lot more work holding a portfolio of houses than you would putting your money in a mutual fund.Regardless, whether you believe 8.6% is a reasonable long-term annualized return for being a landlord or not, there's no arguing that the returns you presented for this scenario (36%) are at-best misleading and at-worst deceptive.In a later post, you claim that math can get confusing because different people use different terminology and formulas, etc.

My aunt actually had a potash company sign a five year lease on some property to fill with employees, can't argue with that!

To your point about every block being different...in a neighborhood like Northern Liberties, I would argue that the price per square foot (price/SF) in an apartment built in the last 10yrs is a worthwhile metric to know...especially when it comes to creating a set of rules to programmatically evaluate a new property on the market.