I paid the full amount and the house has a beautiful and safe pool. 

Hi All,I'm looking to see if anyone knows of a calculator/modeling tool which can help me compare the benefits of selling a property with these four options:Sell and pay capital gains/depreciation recapture upfrontPerform 1031 exchange into new property, defer taxesSell on Seller Carryback Installment Sale, defer taxesSell on Monetized Installment Sale, defer taxesSurprisingly I couldn't find anything online which was very helpful.

The value of the house before the fix etc is less than what I'm lending.My question, is it safe to give the loan to an LLC the guy have or should I insist giving the loan directly to the guy?

Then you got a safe place for people to live and know what your up against cost wise .

I used Pentagon Federal Credit Union but Wells Fargo, Bank of the West, Safe Credit Union and Union Bank  will give HELOCs on rental properties.

So I am just starting out, obviously, and want to form my LLC before I get my first deal, just to be safe.

That is a pretty safe bet.  

I always check the court filings for the local municipal and common pleas courts online.

When we bring this system online, it will be another game changer.TrainingLastly, we train constantly as a company. 

There's also a video walkthrough of the apartment, a link to all other apartments that I have available, my weekly schedule for when they can come see the apartment (I do 1 or 2 open houses per week), and a link to my online rental application.Place apartment on the market Prospects either call me (Leave a message on my Google Voice phone number) or I get an email from Zillow, Trulia etc with their contact infoI send the prospect a text message (using text expander) leading them to the webpageThe prospect chooses which open house works for them and will attend (I don't make 1-on-1 appointments).