About 5 years ago one of the sellers we bought a multi family from told us about a company that has a lot of landlords like us and we coshare insurance coverage.

*Prepare for high insurance costs by running a few properties by your STR insurance company before making a purchase.

You may run a company but you are not investing in real estate as you don’t own anything.

@Greg O'Brien - Do you mind sharing your company details? 

Do you recommend making relationship with property management companies?

But her company, like so many, has whittled down their actual service to the point that they aren't really doing useful work, just enriching the CEO.

I have been invited to be a trainer for a few different training companies.

@Denise CarringerMy preference is to go local - some community banks offer this type of service or local escrow companies, which is what I found, because they offer a higher level of service than most national.

In order to have checkbook control, the IRA account will need to be at a trust company that will allow the IRA to invest in an LLC (where you will be the manager and your IRA will be member - an as manager you will have checkbook access to the LLC bank account).

If your escrow company allowed that to happen, you should go after them.