Gosh... in most states the executor of an estate must be announced publicly, usually in a leading newspaper or business publication.

It may create an issue (liability) if your LLC does business with the public as opposed to being a holding company for the purposes of owning, managing, repairing, etc. of the property.

CPAs are allowed to practice in many areas of private and/or public accounting including tax practice.There are many good EAs, CPAs and tax attorneys.

So I look up the addresses in public records, and contacted the owners listed there.

You should cluster your purchases in a very small area that exhibits traits of defensible space (such as well lit houses w/ good viewpoints of the street, close proximity to busy shops, etc), maybe a couple of streets or a small neighborhod, and also rehab them in a way that will increase these traits (add lights, add white picket fence or hedge to separate public from private, fix sidewalks), and hopefully in the end you will have a group of homeowners who feel safe and care about what happens to their street.

Besides - the assessment (even if assessed because of transfer) may not change the real estate taxes on the property....3) Acuiring property by purchasing an LLC rather than purchasing the property and transfering the deed - could give you some measure of annonimty IF the process of acquiring the LLC does not reveal in public records that you are the new owner of the LLC.As David Krulac mentioned - there is potential negative baggage - acquiring the LLC most likely means you inherit any trouble attached to the LLC.

I fired off a complaint form to the CA Secretary of State today after searching for the notary, finding two public phone listings for her (both disconnected).

He said that as far as he knew, there isn't any reason why people couldn't continue to use the free public parking in the area.

When you turned it into a rental the basis should have been the Lower of your fair market value(FMV) or your actual basis.IRS Publication 527: Basis of Property Changed to Rental UseThree years after you convert it to a rental you lose any possible chances to have treated it as a primary residence for sale exclusions, or the principal residence indebtedness exclusion for a foreclosure/short sale.

Lot's of benefits to the city including the Kalamazoo Promise, which pays for college at any in state university for kids that go K-12 in the public school system.Any suggestions on finding reliable comps to verify ARV assumptions?