Will be spending some time in this area and wanting to connect with other investors, particularly individuals in the short-term rental/VRBO space. 

We were able to successfully transfer the property deeds from our individual names into our LLC however as you've noted there is a risk involved with doing this.

Usually this will happen quickly, so long as you are a generally credit-healthy individual.

I recommend setting up keyword alerts for each area as they are discussed in the forums daily with advertisements posted in the BiggerPockets marketplace hourly.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or loose money in any market.

With the allowable rent increases due to the rent control, do you see (or have you seen) a trend developing where rather than allowing the market/individual landlord to determine rent increase rates, landlord's will automatically go for the maximum (7% you stated) to ensure they're capturing as much growth as possible, basically creating a 'market' that increases by 7% no matter what? 

and I would like recommendations for any particular software/services that offer both Skip Tracing &  would also scrub my lists to make sure I don’t attempt to contact any individuals on the National Do No Call List.    

You as an individual don't have any losses to utilize.

when commissions are paid is it better to create an LP or LLc to have the commissions paid to it rather then the individual realtor. 

And there's no federal mechanism pressuring states to do something specific, like how if a state's drinking age is below 21 then that state will lose federal highway dollars (fun fact: there is ALSO no federal minimum drinking age applicable outside of federally controlled land, just some highway money that forced all the states to "voluntarily" set it at 21 on an individual basis, I believe Texas was the last holdout, possibly due to oil money). 

My main question is; is there liability implications that I’m not taking into account for having this property in my individual name rather than my LLC?