Also, though I work hard to care for this broken sailor, it's REALLY important to me to create my own success instead of simply cashing checks.

I'll get my money when I get around to it.I have another ex tenant who technically owes me about $25,000 in rent due to a broken lease.

Have them fix anything that is broken or damaged and paint on walls with marks.

Your personal assets are not exposed.Say someone slips and falls on your broken rental property sidewalk, all they could sue you for is the equity held by that LLC and nothing more. 

Before we met at the Broken Top Bottle Shop and sat in the back room.  

Statements like "the house smelled," or "my car was broken into in the driveway," or "it took them 3 days to get back to me when a burner on the stove stopped working" are not necessarily an indication of a bad PM...

It's one thing to have a broken dishwasher, where you can fix that in a few days, but you can't underestimate CO. 

In the context of large multifamily it's industry standard for sellers to provide a T12 income statement broken down by month. 

In East Bay 100% homes have broken clay pipes.

If I see cars on cinder-blocks, chainlink fences, a check-cashing place one block over, cars parked on the street with a garbage bag taped over a broken window, etc. then it’s not for me.