I do a lot of preventive maintenance right away to limit some of the surprises. 

@Michael SchmidtAs others have mentioned, the rules that affect retirement account investments will prevent you from investing your Solo 401k into your own syndication.

Fix that preventatively if possible, work on renting your property before the current tenant moves out. 

We've had calls from free legal aid and foreclosure prevention non profits who use the idea of the borrower filing BK as a threat to get us to give their client a loan mod.

For a property manager, they have more regulations that would prevent them from operating as a business without that business account.

What documents are filed with the state to prevent the original owner from fraud “selling” the property to another person?

I don't agree with everything in there (i.e. the over-the-top guarantee he talks about isn't something I would ever expect or demand from anyone else, so I would feel completely weird offering it myself), but in terms of summarizing basic effective marketing techniques in a very easy-to-understand and implement manner I felt like this was like 4 or 5 other books rolled into one.Another great one is "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.

After the transfer is complete you can assign the LLC as the beneficiary of the Land Trust to implement to liability protection.

Go buy them as much lunch and coffee as it take to figure out their systems and how you can implement/replicate their systems WITH them or on your own deals!

Effectively Screening tenants, following fair housing requirements of course, is THE “key” to prevent problems, as is proactive management and direct communication.