Has been a huge headache for the bank and insurance company.

Supply is uber-low because few people - unless they have to or die, frankly - want to sell their home with a 2.8% mortgage only to trade it in for a 7% mortgage.

As someone else mentioned there will also be additional expenses when you bring on a property management company.

You have seen it for 3 years in your daily lives, when you go to the store, or buy a used car, try to buy a home, order parts for your widget company etc…So in summary, prices are here to stay and we need more homes to be built, likely catalyzed by proper incentives / less onerous regulation.

moving it to an LLC will not do much for you in the way of asset protection OR taxes (double check that with a cpa, everyone's tax picture is different). most people lean towards the LLC thing for legal protection, but a single-member LLC is a thin veil that's easily pierced. you'd be paying LLC fees & paying another LLC tax return prep fee, for what i'd say is nothing. if you do want to transfer the deed to an LLC anyway, you'd do a 'quit claim deed' with a title company or real estate attorney. if the mortgage lender ever says something you'll just give them proof that it's a single-member LLC and the one member is you (the original borrower). 

I have my broker's license and I still use my longtime realtor to show me properties; I just needed my broker's license to set up our property management company, and I also get to use it for full-time real estate professional purposes at tax time (I'm retired); I don't use it for looking at properties or anything of that sort. 

Is there any way to avoid capital gains on selling company stock?

His primary home is also in it's own revocable trust.I don't believe he has any asset in his own name, everything in separate trusts.I believe on each trust he is the trustee with his son as the first named beneficiary.He also carries A LOT of insurance, uses a top property management company and all of his properties are in higher-end areas.I was curious, if he's involved in a lawsuit related to one of his properties - I know the trustee has to be identified and usually the target of the suit, but are the properties in his other separate trusts protected.

Only one contractor included trade repairs which brought the final total to $22k.

I hope my abilities will serve me right with real estate investments.I am interested in buy and hold or fix & flip deals of SFH up to $250K.I would be happy to get some tips and start building connections and a local team.I appreciate your help,Chen Hi Chen, I am also an engineer by trade but am now a full-time investor and agent.