I have spent the last 2 years studying, reading, listening to podcasts, and taking advice from this forum and other investors.

In 2016 we used an accountant to do our taxes and ended up spending 10% of our income from the property.

That said, should I open a business bank account in my own name as a sole proprietor or create a DBA to protect my SSN? 

I tried to sign up with them a few years ago and they took many months to approve my account. 

That is one of the advantages of owning property outright - yes, the return might suck, but I have homes that will cash flow, accounting for maintenance, insurance, taxes & capital expenses, at $300 per month.

They haven't paid rent to our account for 5 months this year and keep saying they will address it.

I exchanged messages with another (very generous and informative) investor recently about seller financing and he described it like you, with the healthy down payment and slightly higher interest rate, but I couldn't wrap my head around a buyer with $25k in their bank account who can afford a higher interest rate and slightly higher monthly payments that couldn't qualify for a traditional loan.

and I literally laughed out loud about the monitor :)Account Closed Wow thank you so much for all the resource references, I will be traveling to FL tomorrow and definitely will have some downtime in between meetings!

Thanks, Account Closed!

Account Closed Multiple buildings on a single parcel is very common, but does not fit into the State Farm box very well.Other insurance carriers write a single policy with 9 buildings listed.