I am considering having only occasional group showings, perhaps one per week?

I have property management in place so most of my time is spent on paperwork, accounting, admin along with resolving occasional issues with PM.I spend 10-15 hours per week researching new properties and markets.

There are a couple of fellow that work at Camp Zama, they occasionally get together for meetings and touched base with me.

If the state defines whatever you are doing as transacting some form of business that requires you to register the business in the state, then that might determine where you have a legal obligation to incorporate.If whatever you are doing does often or occasionally require having to bring a lawsuit where you are doing business, most states will typically require you have to be registered or authorized in the state to sue.

I understand it blurs a lot of lines, and I haven't been able to get straight answers yes, so I would appreciate gleaning insight from anyone here who might be able to help!

. • Rent Range: If the majority of the population to which you want to rent are willing and able to pay $1,000/Mo to $1,300/Mo. you should only be looking at properties that you can purchase, rehab and profitably rent in the same rent range.I have a set of property manager interview questions which I use (I am a Realtor in Las Vegas and my practice is almost exclusively remote investors and I occasionally have to move my clients to a different property manager when the current one starts to go bad.), and I will be happy to send to you (or anyone else who want it).

All of this was over the phone and occasionally visiting the properties or all over the phone?

I have done this occasionally, though I do not use LLCs very often, and have never had an issue.

Previously we had used Venmo for an occasional payment here or there, but just set up cozy and it's no problems. 

As mentioned, some brokers allow you a "freebie" when you occasionally sell your primary residence.