California charges a minimum tax of $800 a year per LLC, and more if you have gross receipts in excess of $250k.

I have no exposure to that loan program so it might be ok but I would certainly lean towards getting feedback from someone local to you.  

If you can't afford to do a full delead, do everything you can to minimize your children's exposure to lead.

Once you have your list, find an accountant - and possibly an attorney - who is experienced with real estate and spend a few hundred dollars to have them assist in flushing out a plan that meets your present needs, but that can evolve to also meet your long-term goals (while mitigating your tax exposure along the way).For most folks, unless you are in already in a top tax bracket, you will be better off (tax wise) to hold the properties in your own name.  

I have dabbled in some crowd funding RE through Fundrise to get more passive RE exposure while I was too busy with personal life to buy my own properties.Day job: Engineer and Project Manager in energy sector.REI interests: To start, SFR and smaller MFR, eventually commercial and who knows?!?

I was short-sided in hoping there would less competition in the multiple hundred million arena than the lower priced markets that I'm in now.I hope that having an excess of capital changes me in that I become more creative in the sense of building something of my own if it doesn't already exist(figuratively and literally I guess!)

I'm concerned about lead exposure to myself and our children, so here's my question:Do we test for lead paint so we can know of any risk factors to our family, but then also risk that if tests come back positive for lead levels, we will have to disclose our knowledge of lead paint in the home to tenants (and open ourselves up to possible law suits in the future)?

If you interview people who have an active social media following, they will promote their episode, which gives you more exposure.

Even though it was listed as newly renovated we expected to have some things to address but this seems excessive and I'm not even sure if the bank will finance a property with foundation issues where some area's are considered "severe".

two totally different answers depending on which side of the fence your on as well as the current market conditions for whichever market ( local, out of state) your investing in. . . . . me personally, assuming i would also run into excess time then i would actively take on a small multifamily BRRRR, and passively become a HML and loan out my money to have it work for me passively.