In a perfect situation you may have one per property, but the cost and effort involved in maintaining that many LLC is cumbersome.

From my understanding the first 6 months to a year will be the most difficult for providing income while also maintaining proper marketing costs until I could establish a larger sphere of influence. 

They've since taken another deposit, but I fear this may be an issue in the future - not just with getting it rented, but also due to inclement weather affecting the inside.Why wouldn't they install functioning garage doors (I recently posed this questions to them and am waiting for an answer)? 

, the tenants were quite fine, and actually pretty excited about the idea of the repairs :)We just strived to maintain open communication with them throughout the process, and showed that we respected the property itself, as well as respected the tenant's time and how they have made it their home as well (by showing that we want to fix it up for them to provide a better place for them to live).Granted, we could have just lucked out an have easy-going (and logical) tenants, but in sum, I think being respectful of the tenant's time and space, and showing objective reasons why the repairs will benefit them goes a long way in rapport building and getting the job accomplished.

Majority are space efficient and don't have much of a yard to maintain which is a plus for tenants. 

This way, you'll have time to work on your NEXT deal instead of spending it maintaining your property.

Also part of the reason was that my tenant always paid her rent on time and maintained the house rather well.

You're assuming you'd have to put some cash in the deal if you maintain a 25% vacancy and no rent increases over the next 5 years which is hopefully a worst case scenario.Regarding the financing, it might help to talk to some commercial lenders at as many local banks as  you can find and see what they are offering.  

I have it narrowed down to a few choices, but I pose the following question to my REI peers. 

This particular building is in decent shape and has been maintained well enough, though it's had very little capital improvements recently (potential for increased rents with some rehabbing, but not going into that here...)