(It would require a hell of a lot more low voltage wiring and BMS points)You mention that you have 6 "zones" controlled by thermostats, which doesn't technically mean you have 6 units.

Is the practice that the banks and hedge funds use open to LLC's, partnerships, sole proprietors,etc?

There is an incredible morass of regulations and laws controlling consumer residential lending that you may not want to get yourself involved with. 

There is also the distinction between passive custodians such as listed on the nuwireinvestor page referenced and advisory firms that implement and support plans offering checkbook control.I strongly applaud your desire to have the IRA piece figured out before pursuing opportunities, as that is critical to your investing success as well as IRS compliance.Check out a handful of companies, both on the passive custodian and checkbook control side of the equation.  

I hope that the people renting homes will wise up and report these unfair practices that the GREEDY real estate market has imposed.I’d like to add some other variables to the Renter’s point of view.

Hello BPs,I read an interesting article for pest control - and it come to my mind -  how many of you have a pest control service maintenance as a yearly line item maintenance on your rental properties?

(Just have to work on controlling my spending).

In my experience somethings are out of your control and you just have to wait for when it comes back on the market.  

Is that standard practice?

There are concerns with this practice as a DIL can cause a merger of interest in the real property and negate the security and superiority to other claims that the Mortgagee had prior.