You also don't want the local giant who advertises $99 clog removals aggressively on every bus, billboard, and park bench to build a residential empire with a customer list full of homeowners and no landlords.

Most likely the state where the property is located is where lawsuits would be brought if they are something for personal injury like a trip and fall or something of that nature because the “cause of action” arose in that state.

@Vic Oyedeji If you are just asking contractors to come along with you to look at listed properties...you won't get any who want a ticket to ride that bus.

So far i've been down there 2 times since i took ownership. i'm hoping to get it to be a once a month trip to inspect property and collect rent.reading the book on manageing rental properties has already come in handy. i stick to my policies, you need to be tough but you also need to be fair. we had a power outage due to miscommunication over holiday weekend. so first two days of the month the entire building is out of power. we live in ohio so its not warm out at all, so to be considerate i used an idea i heard from a recent podcast on the site. i got everyone in the building 20 visa card and handwritten apology. that went over extremely well for leaving 7 families without power in the dead of winter. its the little things you pick up while reading or listening that make the biggest diffrences

A quick trip to the courthouse (or looking online if you're lucky enough to have a county working in the 21st century) should take care of this for you.

If all are correct, then for expensing business activities like phone bills, business trips for deals hunting and due diligence, etc, do I need to apply one credit card for each subsidiary LLC and use different card when doing business for different LLC?

I just started toying with the idea of moving to Montreal or Gatineau when we return to Canada from our extended trip.

$600 for removing garbage really depends on how much needed removal- did they need to make a trip to the dump (fee involved) did they need to deal with dangerous liquids, feces, etc? 

I’d like to work towards making a trip next year, it’d be awesome to time it up with a local meeting.

The driveway is so bad the mail or school bus wont run down it anymore.