I learned that in order for my investing business to be successful I needed three important ingredients: (1) Money (2) Quality contractors (3) Off market properties.That led me to concentrated on finding deals that the numbers worked within, even with rates at 12%+ and up to 4 points for short-term money, and in areas where quality contractors wanted to do work.

The simplest route is to complete the exchange under your name and transfer the new property into an LLC afterward.

Let's start with the simplest reason of them all: imagine your CPA is working on your taxes.

But far as the building dept. side of things and all that, I find it one of the simplest of cities of such size. 

That was just one example of what I would consider to be fraud by grossly misrepresenting the time required to complete even the simplest tasks...like changing a couple light bulbs...30 min!

The most common in simplest form that has been deemed as most passive is a simple, long-term rental.If you have not purchased a property for yourself, yet, I would highly recommend getting started with house hack, and learning that way.

The simplest fix for this would be BP implementing a mute/block feature that actually does what you'd expect it to do.Currently, they do have a "block" feature but I believe it only stops people from being able to send you direct messages.

This is the simplest.

But the simplest test is going to be to turn on the water and see where it starts gushing.

Regarding running model / proforma - simplest to create something in excel that you can adjust the numbers on.