@Robert Quiroz Financing allows you to leverage your $1M to acquire multiple properties, increasing diversification, cash flow, and long-term equity growth while preserving liquidity.

We are a few friends from California looking to invest in multi family real estate in Ohio. Initially, we were thinking to make an LLC. For LLC, we need to register in Ohio and California. If we don't go the LLC route...

I like to to buy deals with multiple exit strategies.

(Which is just a hallway/ staircase plus the basement where the laundry is as it is a 3-story rowhouse walkup; right now there is no HVAC at all - it is a large rehab project.)5) Are there any discounts for leasing fees usually if the agent is leasing multiple units?

Be careful on if you do, get multiple bids and vet the GC well. 

I have a tenant in Maine who refused to leave after her lease expired, and multiple notices were given saying she needed to leave after it expired. 

Sounds like you put in a Bonafide game player but no worries, they suck at the game.

Two big players in Cedar Rapids are Grace Gudenkauf and Amelia McGee.

.- multiple indoor common areas (think 2 separate tv setups). - exterior "usable square footage" (think covered patio, pergolas).- extra storage space so tenants don't feel the need to squeeze their entire lives into one room (extra garage space, attic, detached shed)- room for 2 full refrigerators!

Generally, grouping allows you to count all your hours collectively toward the 500-hour threshold, simplifying the qualification process for multiple properties.