In a fund you typically are backed by all the assets, when doing it yourself its one.

Once you have a property under your belt and it's stable, do it again.

There are also companies that will do it for $100-300 flat fee or $30-50/yr.

Made 6 figures in GCI doing that in 2024.

Those who do pump out the dividends, don't appreciate anywhere near that. 

I then went to the bank and mortgaged it for the same $30k at 8.5% over 20 years.

I mean we tracked a 2 mil population metro and were able to buy 1 to 3 a month with 6 full time folks doing nothing but the tracking and door knocking. do it yourself going to be a challenge but hey give it a try see how it works.

Could it be considered piercing the corporate veil if the mortgage for the property is in your personal name but the deed is in the name of the LLC? 

do you have a good attorney?

The majority of the business I do is buying small multi families and identifying the towns that are more favorable for investing.