We are not quite ready to refinance as renovations are on-going and we don't have the tenant base established to validate our value add.

Should I first establish a trust (or legal entity) of some kind as a foundation to buy all my future properties in its name?

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Most lenders hold back the repair funds and they establish a timeline as to what needs to be done and release the funds as repairs as made. 

Don't need to incur the costs to establish and annually administer unnecessary legal entities, don't need to incur various filing fee costs like CAs $800 franchise tax fee which would kill the profitability of most of my SFRs, I don't need to worry about my entities being pierced because of I failed to engage in a lot of meaningless formalities, keeps my overall record keeping and tax returns cleaner and less costly, don't need to deal with the growing trend in various states to disregard what are perceived to be ersatz legal entity protections, how many more do you need?

I'd recommend finding a local attorney and establishing a good relationship. 

It will give a place to live for very little and possibly free, then you can use your time looking for small apartment buildings with a partner when do you have established your network and a stable homebase. 

Techniques are reasonably well established, and they're not exactly flashy.

So theres a GP who’s done about $2B of deals and I want to help them expand in Texas, and find my friends fund a good investment.The GP is putting $200m equity to work a year roughly, so they are doing well w raising ...

You could also raise the funds, which is way easier than I ever thought it would be, but this ability came to me only after I established some sort of track record.