One company owns everything and does nothing (this is your SLLC a/k/a “asset holding company”) and a completely separate company handles all of your operations (this is a traditional LLC a/k/a “operating company”) For the operating company which serves as your face to the world and through which you do all your business, you establish a Traditional LLC to carry out the operations of your investments.

You'll need to establish relationships in order to get the best deals for the long term.

We have gone from them not really understanding money to them earning pay, establishing their own Vanguard accounts, and budgeting for all of their own expenses. 

But because the gal had established residency in his home and had given those guys permission to enter the house and take the things, the police wouldn't intervene on account of it was a "civil matter" not a "criminal matter."

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?

Thus, a taxpayer may be penalized for the underpayment of estimated taxes for any installment for which his estimated tax payments plus taxes withheld from salary (and certain other payments) don't total at least 25% of the required annual payment.Exception: Income tax withheld by an employer from an employee's wages or salary is treated as paid in equal amounts on each of the four installment due dates unless the individual establishes the dates on which the amounts were actually withheld.

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.