Having multiple bathrooms in a house or apartment makes life so much easier by eliminating waiting time and ensuring everyone's privacy.

Attorney can help you with the legal side of things, but your original post is about the clunky and overwhelming of the bookkeeping side of things.

If not, I'd be willing to help an experienced investor do some book keeping or other errands in exchange for letting me be by their side for some deals that they close just so I get some experience with buying properties.

I want to ensure that the door matches and that it gets painted, and also that it was installed professionally.

Your lease, I'm certain, has a clause that ensures "quiet enjoyment".

I’m still getting my feet wet here, but it strikes me as a good was to ensure that my property remains in good shape during the duration of the tenants lease.

Assuming I take my time to ensure that we cashflow positive, setting aside for future vacancy, capex, etc, I'm comfortable to continue investing in the Reno area, even with the possibility of deflation in the near future.

This will be measured semi-annually to ensure compliance.

Let's say, it costs you 1.5K to get your structures in place (holding LLC or Series-LLC, with or without land trusts, with or without separate operations LLC) and 0.5K per year (for maintaining the LLC properly, bookkeeping, lawyer and CPA, etc.) for a total of 2K.

We are moving as far as we can but with two full-time jobs and kids, by the time we get in touch with the agent, she sets up visit, go see and figure out rents in the area to ensure numbers add up...someone snatches it.I read some investors make offers site unseen - and then inspect the property and back out during the due diligence period if we see problems on inspection.We haven;t done this and as beginners, feel rather uncomfortable with this "shoot first, ask questions later" strategy; but if this is what it takes to prevent yet another good opportunity from slipping thrugh our hands then I guess that's what we'll have to do.Regarding the "Fair Housing" aspect, we don't intent so state anything or discriminate against anybody.