As were the Gift Trusts etc under the guise of 'good' Financial Planning.Instead I concentrated on notes & LTO properties in a rev Trust,& that is how they/we paid for private college(s) & the older ones now own (most) of their own homes (as a trust also holds their financing @ AFR).

Do you think I could do better while maintaining a limited level of involvement in the day to day operations from afar (California)?

I may be better off just holding on to the property, increase (or at least maintain) it's equity, and position myself for the long game.

This can help me decide which field I should be concentrating more.Thank you.

.- Next, I'll incrementally start to do other things, while doing whatever I can to maintain the income streams I've already created.

Properly maintaining an older car is expensive... they hit the 100K mile mark and the tune ups, belts, 3rd set of tires, etc start to really add up.

Should I concentrate on getting a different painter in early, or let it ride?

They are an international association who train and maintain qualified remediation companies within their membership.

Doesn't the seller maintain the loan in their name, therefore limiting their access to gain another loan on a new home?

Feel free to PM me.We are a avid fan of using LLCs to hold our property for a number of reasons: 1) The liability issue, so we hold about $5 million (approx 20 to 50 SFHs) per LLC as a way to place a firewall between all of our holdings; 2) We use it as a way to concentrate our holdings for easier tax filings (ie, our FL LLC only holds FL property); 3) Investor ownership to allow each investor to be segregated in what they actually own.