I've seen that applied to all types of shared utilities and it was successful in my case, but I can see many cases (with picky tenants) where it wouldn't work out so well.

Special rules apply when investing in real estate alongside your own solo 401k though which I have discussed in may other posts already.

For financing purposing would I use the holding or management company to apply for the loan?

got out of my comfort zone, overcame my fear and happy about it... applied what I teach!!!

I'm also an investor, so when I had to choose my Broker I naturally chose the one that represented me in my past investments.

Account Closed you really need to talk to an attorney about an LLC in your specific state because there is so much misleading info on the web about LLCs and certain things don't apply to some states.

But since I am buy and hold this really does not apply to me. 

Than i seized the day, I tried out furnished rentals on two of our houses (HUGE impact on why we are successful) and so successful we will be doing it to 2 more houses), raised rents during natural tenant turn over (from 1250 to 1450), and so on. 

Discounts are applied for defects in the loan as an offset to the risk of disposition and holding the loan.  

@Michael Delpier, @John Thedford is right, barring a huge natural disaster and congressional action there's no exceptions.