LLC or no LLC If it is a vacation home, I would say no.I am someone who supports LLCs most of the time but it is different because I never plan on spending time at the properties.Get an umbrella policy/extra insurance and you should be fine.Plus it will be easier to get a loan on a vacation home than on a purely investment home.Have you considered holding in a trust?

What makes a self-directed IRA custodian different is that they are not purely connected to the public exchanges and limited to investing in stocks, bonds and funds, but rather have the staff training and paperwork to document the IRA's investment in the more individualized transactions that occur when investing in real estate, notes and other non-traditional assets.

Make sure you remember that $300 is not pure spending money.

If they are in high demand, they will request a retainer fee for the pure reason of making sure that the buyer is serious or not.There are many buyers that will immediately share all their information.

Anyone want to do dinner/drinks in Tulsa on Thursday night? 

No debating this, no opinions this is pure math, fact, logic.

Going with an unlicensed and illegal Property Manager would be in my mind pure lunacy.Some in this thread have implied or out right stated that a larger Property Management Company equates to a lower quality product.

Purely anecdotal, as I haven't actually researched the market, but feels like in my FB groups this one was hot during covid and now people are panicking as supply has gone way up there and demand returning back to normal.

Month ago and for years before it was $1.07.A few days ago $1.30.Today $1.49.The major ingredients in soft drinks are Water, Sweetner (corn syrup usually) and Carbon Dioxide. 

Getting your duplex by being an owner occupant will be far easier that doing it in reverse as a pure investment.