In my opinion, the 'deals' are off-market, and require some creativity in order to justify, so I'd start looking there.

Thanks again everyone for your ideas, opinions and willingness to share your experiences and knowledge with us.

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Interested in getting opinions on recommended ways to finance at this point. 

And that much, in my subjective but informed opinion, we do have.Likely worst case for landlords who own more than one unit and those units are not on triple net lease: You owe the taxes saved via having taken the Pass-Thru Deduction, you avoid penalties on those taxes, and owe interest on the taxes saved via having taken the deduction at a circa 4% APR.

I tend to be a little opinionated but none of this is meant to hurt you. 

In my opinion, that might work okay if you only have a handful of rentals and you don't mind bugging people for rents.

I have heard lots of varying opinions about whether I should create a business like an LLC or some say I should have the house in a trust.

In my opinion, I'd start locally

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