And I'm not a huge fan of "forum shopping" (that is, setting up an LLC out of your home state just for corporate law reasons) because you still generally have to register the LLC in your home state. 

If anyone is doing the scratching, it's the tenants who have something to hide, it's the tenants who want to phone versus email to make sure nothing is written down, and who want to waste the landlord's time window shopping because they have nothing better to do. 

Once you've studied real estate principles, including basic title, documents, valuation, financing, etc. and are ready to begin finding, I suggest you make a field trip to a fishing tackle shop, a hunting gun store and a gold prospected supply store. 

Last month the group met in a different location and I'm not sure if that will be the same spot this month or we will go back to the coffee shop.

We have NFL, NBA, WNBA, tons of shopping, NCAA headquarters, Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400, the world's largest children's museum, and so much more.

Im currently shopping for long term debt, my business and partner were weighting the opportunity cost of storing equity in the asset, versus taking the cash today and placing it into higher yielding investments.

Just like any other product, from any other business, you just have to shop around.Banks aren't "crazy".  

I shopped all around the bay area for the best price/value. 

That was my point, not to knock on you Kyle I realize everyone wants the best deal possible whenever the hire out work but property management is not where you should be price shopping.  

The only way someone could come in and set up shop in the house is if it’s not being watched over good enough .