I've been offered a full year rent upfront on numerous occasions, but have wisely never accepted it.

That's what this Realtor stands to make on a $48K purchase.....and that is IF he gets a full 3% co-broke, and IF his broker doesn't take a cut.Keep in mind, there is a 30-45 day transaction that the Realtor has to facilitate AFTER this property search and contract negotiations are complete. 

I have been vetting a lot of syndication and JV opportunities and one of the benefits of numerous syndications vs one or a handful of JVs is diversification. 

For that you need to employ services of a facilitator company (there are several professionals here on BP who are active on the forum including myself).

I ended up getting my license to facilitate my investing because I was struggling finding any investor friendly agents or wholesalers that had accurate rehab budgets or ARVs.

.- I don't think Trello has the capability to set numerous reminders if that's what you need.

There are numerous strategies to utilize your passive losses, several of which I covered in that podcast.

Tenant's great, but trying to facilitate maintenance from my home in FL is difficult.

Most LLCs are "pass-through" so there is no numerical change to your taxes.The others are correct that rent payments need to be made to the management company.

Review fee schedules carefully – there may be separate charges for whatever 3rd party custodian they are using.The third company type is a Facilitator.