I just purchased in Sept of 2021 and am doing a house hack, although mine will look very different than yours (i only have one 4-legged mouth to feed and have piled in room mates to pay most of my mortgage for me). 

I would suggest you invest some time watching carefully the hours of information available on the Clint Coons Youtube channel.While there are different levels of structuring you can do for asset protection, and after having studying this field for over ten years now, this is the best comprehensive resource I have found on the net.There are some more extreme asset protection techniques with offshore entities and trust that are not really discussed in this channel, but these are often not very useful for real estate asset as a local judge in the jurisdiction where the real estate asset is located can completely ignore the offshore part and seize the local asset.

I have been seeing several posts both on this website and throughout my Facebook feed of people asking this question.

He goes into detail on this, he also has a good youtube channel.

There are already a few cats there that the various STR tenants feed.  

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Thanks in advance, as always I greatly appreciate your feed back!

Paying more for something rather than less is usually a mistake UNLESS (i) you do not have sufficient cash to "feed the alligator" every month, or (ii) there is some useful purpose for that cash (i.e. you can incur greater investment returns on the cash that exceed the after-tax cost of the additional interest payments). 

I’ve also recorded a bunch of videos on Biggerpockets channels about different paths to invest in CRE.  

Do you guys have the w2 income, career, or job to weather feeding this for 2-3 years (keeping in mind new owners will bring out the repair requests from the tenants)?