Two siblings living in the house out of 8 total siblings could have very easily led to years of lawsuits while your money is tied up in a house you don't have in your possession.  

That protects the syndicator against lawsuits if things go bad.  

All signage and advertising can be in the DBA, and if you go the route of local banking, that too can go in the name.Now there is a caveat, in that should the existing holder of your LLC name in Ohio decided that some of your advertising was infringing on his business, he could go the route of the cease/desist, lawsuit, etc, but you can cross that unlikely bridge when you get to it.

I would take that $15K and lend it out at 10 - 12% to rehabbers, use it for 3 months, be a private lender, make $1500 every 3 months, and -no maintenance, no taxes, -no asset protection costs, -no law suits from tenants, -no property management costs, -etc.Better yet, I would start a Self Directed Roth IRA.See https://www.trustetc.com/resources/education/case-...Own loan notes. not property with tenants and toilets.

The clerk's office has only a couple of basic functions.....receive documents to be recorded, and maintain those records for access (along with the documents/filing for law suits).  

The LLC is there to protect your personal assets from lawsuits, but that can only happen if you maintain a 'corporate veil'.

@Kim Handelman an alternative to the duplex "house hack" is the house with a mother-in-law suite/efficiency apartment house hack. 

correctley it limits the impact of a potential law suit to the asset the LLC owns.

I definitely agree with the part about Attorneys being conservative but I guess it is because they have seen involved, directly and indirectly, in many lawsuits on both sides during their career.

That investors business has been shut down since then because of numerous lawsuits.