Eventually, I let the contractors supply the small stuff and building materials.

@Karl PlatzerWhy would anyone worry about business entities, taxes, and all that dull stuff from Oahu?

I think I would eventually cash flow after a few years with rent price increasing, but not much. 

Seems like being in the vicinity of local wineries and Dulles airport may present good opportunity-- just not sure it's worth the cost of renovating and furnishing one of these two-property lots... 

This alone is probably eventually $5K per unit in the next few years.

My main reasoning for the LLC is to be able to eventually have access to business loans to buy more real estate.

I lived in Milwaukee for a few years for college and hope to eventually migrate to investing there once home base, so to speak, is taken care of.

Eventually you'll want one if you keep buying more rentals.

If you are eventually granted a patent, and someone else violates your patent after the date the application was accepted then you can file suit against them or otherwise try to enforce your intellectual property.You cannot patent a business process (device, whatever) someone else is already using or making.

They eventually dropped it but sometimes these banks don't have a clue.