I guess that's the goal but I think anything that gives you a better grip on maintenance/CapEx/appliance costs and planning helps a lot.4) Paperwork - Right now, this is your best defense as a landlord, this means properly executed tenant paperworks delivered in a time, method and manner specified by the local authorities (which sounds totalitarian). 

@Chase Hoover just make it clear to that agent that you are representing yourself and you would like a 3% discount off the price because they do not have to pay a buyer's agent, if you just need someone to walk you through the paperwork that is one heck of a lot cheaper than 3% of the purchase price in most cases. 

Based on our conversations with attorneys and other investors, the LLC would be more paperwork, moving things around, add the expense of $800 (California) per year when the the cost to gain a much larger umbrella coverage for $200 a year. 

A few months after being fired I was told by a fill in from the office, that he had somehow lied on my paperwork and fixed my utility checks 70$ more than approved, with a total of 2900, Now I am being made to pay that back.

And I'm leaning towards getting a 203k renovation loan because I have time for all the paperwork and work that needs to be done. 

You already have all the paperwork in pdf 's Hopefully new lender has a web based app that you can upload and see what you sent them and see the progress.

I'm worried you did what a lot of SDIRA investors do and handed over the funds with no paperwork.

We went by his house just a block from this land and tried to have a talk with him but he just wanted us to leave a bunch of paperwork with him and he'd get to it "in a few weeks".  

"I can then pay their awfully expensive title work and survey fees or shop for my own"So you're going to get lender A to accept another lender's paperwork pertinent to the immediate loan.  

I'm hoping for the best as she said she wanted to stay and will pay, but I have the paperwork ready to give her notice.