This means paying a little extra upfront to access comprehensive databases of potential buyers and sellers, sales skills, contracts, etc allowing you to expand your reach and efficiency significantly.

My personal assessment of the overall economic risks has hit a tipping point.  

We have a good apartment in socal in an area close to wife’s parents and looking to have children soon so want to stay close vs moving now.

Now both sides are long term rentals for me.

I question if there is any benefit to creating a LLC now and opening the bank account in the LLC name.

Now I'm not saying g you don't need an agent ever.

I feel in this market it is difficult to get outsized returns (S&P seems very hot and might be hard to sustain 7%+ returns in long term.. but even if so, I’m risk adverse so would probably keep it my HYSA)I did run the numbers if I were to prepay $60,000 now and it appears the IRRs are lower (because of the higher cost basis).

- Tenants can be unbearable with delays for access to make repairs:( Often they play games with repairs, so they don't have to pay rent.How have they been communicating?

UCF is now the second largest university in the US with 70,000 or so students, and apartments are springing up everywhere.

That's called functional obsolescence and may be a negative or give you a value-add opportunity by adding a bath on a level which lacks it.That's enough for now