In NC, it's legal, but the previous AG who is now Governor felt it was anti-consumer, and the NC Real Estate Commission also did not take very kindly to assignments--I'm summarizing to add color commentary to the issue--you need to understand IN, assuming your property is local.The second point is to consider what's right.

Credit Karma is wrong, consumers accurately state their total usable assets less than 5% of the time, and the majority of Americans do not understand that if they get a 1099 then they aren't an employee. 

But it is slowly being eroded of it’s benefit when the consumer feels like they are being bamboozled.  

And getting all of the details to come together in a harmonious way is super time consuming. 

The lawsuits for wrongful death, civil liabilities and other media attention will consume most of your waking hours for a couple of years if it was proven you failed to maintain the property and contributed to the death of one or more individuals.It won't matter if you have great insurance, an LLC or whatever asset protection plan the latest guru sold you.

It's simply not worth it to them because it's too expensive and time consuming to maintain.It's best to get RE investment knowledge from investor-focused sources, like BiggerPockets forums, blogs, YouTube channel, etc. 

(Like all of you) I just wanted to get on here and say thanks to everyone that is putting information out for the rest of us to consume.

After you write these pointers down, you can start thinking about the next phases:Content Amalgation (consume all the content you can about real estate)Determine your real estate investing strategyThen make the investment decision I say all this because we shouldn't just do what everybody else is doing (buying a single family home) and expect a different outcome (expect to make a fantastic profit that would allow us to quit our day jobs).

I think Ari makes a good point.Matt, I think the new rules force people to take 3 college classes now which can be time consuming and expensive.

Please don't waste money on LegalZoom when you can get the same form here, and are more likely going to have a better result:  https://mn.gov/commerce/consumers/tips-tools/unifo...