Low... is all relative. 

Who told your relatives you could get them 15-20% COC?

Your best best would be to invest in places like Bloomington IL or Champaign where the prices are low and the crime is relatively low.

I'm not an attorney but my understanding is yes, you can definitely do that, and I believe things like that happen every day.While I can see some possibilities for why someone would want to set things up that way, I do have the instinctual thought that it might be over complicating things.Technically the second LLC is another layer of asset protection, and maybe you have a very specific entity structure setup for taxes which would make it beneficial to do it that way (an LLC inside an LLC), but it's worth asking the question of whether these is much difference, or much more protection, than just having you (presumably a Mass. resident) be the member of the RI partnership LLC straight-out rather than having your MA LLC be the member.Also, depending on what else you have going on in your MA LLC it may be a disadvantage to have it be a member of the RI LLC from an asset protection perspective - if someone were to be able to pierce the veil of the RI LLC then everything in your MA LLC would be at risk.If you do go with the MA LLC as a member of the RI LLC, when you go to sell the property you'll have non-resident withholding - but you'd have that if you personally were the member of the RI LLC as well.You'll also need to be careful how you sign anything relating to the RI LLC - you'd have to be careful not to sign as member of the RI LLC but as member of your MA LLC, member of the RI LLC.

My father passed a few years ago and my my mother is aging and she has asked me to help her with a rental property she owns in New York City, Queens to be exact. 

Hey Mike,Thanks for taking the time to respond to my thread.The LLC I plan to form isn't going to be for properties but a separate business not related to properties.

He's a fellow Orlando guy who got started at a young age with a very limited income, but off the charts hustle. 

Hi everyone,Asking for some advice on specific condo/townhouse communities you are aware of in Coppell/Plano/Frisco ISD which have units priced at <$200K (preferably <$150K) and would attract higher-quality tenants with school-age kids due to the excellent schools. 

This means we need to make a relatively quick decision about whether we will rent or sell our current residence.

I had more than on contractor borrower of mine that finally figured that out got enough equity from relatives and now they are doing quite well and no way we can compete with them.but you start moving up north of 750k to purchase and unless your in the Bay area or prime LA  that does knock out a lot of competitionand you also have to remember this poster is paying CASH  HUGE difference as she has no cost of capital most of us need to borrow and if your borrowing HM which 95% have to as banks really don't service this niche ... her carrying cost ona say 700k project would eat up 20 to 30k EASY..