@Stevan AdzicOther possible options open to you are:Use a trust account with your lawyer's practice (fine for purchases, etc., but a little tedious - and likely expensive - for day-to-day operations; orOpen a joint account with your local agent (for your LLC) - implies a high degree of trust in your agent;If you are using a local property manager, all the operations will be through their (hopefully segregated) account for your property(ies) ... this leaves you the option of a trust account with your solicitor for the big-ticket matters.In all the above, you will need to provide identification and may need to have it notarized in NSW and send directly to the parties in the U.S.A. ... we were asked to do this when opening a U.S.A. account a number of years ago.

(Tuckpointing in progress without permit)Center stairwell - treads are loose, deck boards are rotting, and tiles are missingHoles in wallsExterminate roachesReplace 6 hot water tanks per violation only, no electricalThe rest of the citations and violations are cosmetic and practical things.

I have only done simultaneous closings with all cash sales and never with one side using a mortgage for funding.

A common practice, in my experience.

I like it a lot and I find I am suprised by structure and the help I can get in areas I am not confortable with (mainly accounting).My hopes, then are to, non-aggresively for now, start buying more properties and educate myself that way through hand-ons practice.

I don't want to get nailed for practicing real estate without a license so I wonder if anybody has any suggestions on how I should do this.

Also it is near a major university and several miles from the Washington D.C. border.Heat -> I can't tell if they share heat or what but I know that the heat bill is on the tenants, not the landlordWater -> Your probably right on this because there is a total of 7 bedrooms between the 3 units so the water is probably higher than my estimate..Management -> Most of the analysis I look at assumes a 10% management fee; is it standard practice to include that fee as well?

Tim and I regularly support each other in our individual law practices and do a lot of business together.

I've been getting a lot of practice lately at being patient. :)

Also from a practical point of view...a "pitbull" who is a service dog, is going to be 1,000 times better behaved than any breed that is not a service dog.