from my point of view if your an individual and not partnering with folks who ever is going to sue you is going to name you personally.. this is where you need good insurance to take up your defense as your first line of defense.whether they have the right to sue you is immaterial.. or whether they will prevail is immaterial.. if your operating as a group or partnership and have clean records this can limit your exposure to your ownership.other than that  retirement accounts should be maxed out they basically cant be touched... certain trusts.but just LLC labyrinths like you mention.. those are not going to do it for most or.. you will spend a ton of dough fighting to make the position they can't sue you. when suits happen everyone is named .. that's when you need good insurance to handle your defense.

The individuals that make up the BP community is one of the many reasons I committed to BiggerPockets.I am open to all recommendations and advice regarding real estate investing.

They even have it online.

Easy to work with and manage online so far. 

(B) A cause of action may not arise against an owner of real estate in a covered transaction for failure to disclose:(1) that the subject real estate is or was occupied by an individual who was infected with a virus or other disease which has been determined by medical evidence to be highly unlikely to be transmitted through his occupancy of a dwelling place; or(2) that the death of an occupant of a property has occurred or the manner of the death; or(3) public information from the sex offender registry as defined in Article 7, Title 23.

We spent the past couple of months fixing it up and just put it online for rent.

If you don't find anything and are willing to help develop something that fits your needs, I'm building a landlord app that's focused on helping individuals track and organize things related to managing their real estate investments. 

I form my LLCs using an online company - takes about 15 minutes and has worked just fine. 

@Jo-Ann Lapin do you know if there are any auctions (tax or foreclosure) that still take place in person or are they all conducted online now?

There are a ton of resources online to search demographics, crime rates, growth, etc.