Adam Bergman's book "The Checkbook IRA" is one of the reasons I elected to go with IRA Financial Group, but I did want to check with the BP community. 

The only reason I bothered was because I knew it was a high appreciation market, and I knew it would be short term. edit - I actually realized this post seemed familiar, I already answered your other identical thread. apologies

He explained that was one of the reasons he wanted to meet face to face.

My contractor was slow but he was really reasonable on prices and I found some great deals on the material as well.  

Reason being is that I will be in school for the next 2-3 years(10-20K rent), I can add value/fix the house while I'm living in it, instead of paying rent I can rent out the other 3 rooms to my friends at school (mortgage payments/free living/profit?)

The reason we all own rental properties is to have the money to NOT have to deal with crappy neighbors. 

-must come in a grayish to light gray/brown color-must be reasonably priced.

But you would then need to sign the offer under this name.For all these reasons, I would probably create the LLC well in advance.

I cant seem to find a good basic paint job with prep at a reasonable price.

I would check all your windows to make sure they are still secure.I have used Simply Safe and it has been reasonably prices and works fairly well.Ames