Your financing would look like this:N (number of pmts) = 360I/YR (annual interest rate) = 9%PV (present value / starting balance) = $75,000PMT (monthly payment amount / assuming monthly) = -$603.47 (this is a negative value because cash going OUT)YES, you should budget additionally for taxes and insurance and other costs like get readies, turnaround, upkeep, and capital expenditures. 

We have a breed / weight limit on dogs based on our insurer (Steadily) which would negate our liability coverage. 

Just remember: most negative reviews are written by problematic tenants.

This may negatively impact you by them being frustrated at all the showings which prospective tenants will pick up on. 

If they hadn’t, our portfolio would have been negative for 2019.

I happen to be very supportive of continuing education, but there’s no guarantee for the returns that the average statistics portray.

I personally would start the platforms with the most volume and the least negative investor feedback.

C) Will placing the current properties in LLC’s have any affect, positively or negatively, toward obtaining more financing for future purchases?

Make a potential negative into a positive! 

Minimum contents of option contracts is well defined in 47G-2, but it is amazing that some attorney drafted Lease/Option to Purchase contracts fail in this very basic requirement. 47G-2(d), Recordation, is IMO (without any statistics, just a conclusion from talking to attorneys) is the most common non-compliance.