If it started getting hairy, I would simply say "Here is my lawyers number, feel free to contact them, have a good day". 

The only real "problem" I had was that they provided many different tax forms that needed to be manually and painstakingly entered at tax time as you're technically invested in several different Funds/REITs. 

It's simply for asset protection purposes.

When the closing entity simply holds your money in their escrow account after closing you are deemed to have constructive receipt (meaning control if not possession) of the money. 

My suggestion is to simply do what they have done, what every business does, pass it off on the consumer.  

I'm a new investor looking to enter the Columbus market, interested in rental properties.

We are thinking that rather than simply spend down her retirement funds to pay for this care that there maybe a way to invest in rental property in order to pay for a significant portion of that cost through cashflow generated from rentals.

Prices kept risingNow I am playing in Detroit, building costs in the last 12 months has increased by 10% a good signCurious do other investors look at this Makes perfect sense to me, Marisa unless builders are getting increasingly pulled to the suburbs and build prices are rising simply to entice them to Detroit proper (not sure that's necessarily a bad thing though either).Curious where you're getting this data.

Even though my Sales were mortgage free and didn't require hardly any time from me except between tenants, I simply wanted to do something fun for a change with some money.    

Simply buying a stabilized asset and operating it isn’t suited for an the OZ program.