Tile floors, basic cabinets, standard fixtures.

The same principles hold true across a wide range of real estate sectors — including industrial, flex, healthcare and medical, student housing, retail centers, land, and specialty assets like sports and recreation facilities, among many others.The core message is exactly what you described: real estate investing should be approached as a toolkit of strategies, not a single-asset playbook.

So there is basically no way to avoid the penalty, even if I make quarterly payments?

At a high level, many investors choose to separate properties into different LLCs rather than holding everything in one entity.The basic idea is risk containment.

Basically anything I've read states that you have to keep your money separate from the properties or any personal assets can become a liability and at a risk of loss.

The number of issues is so large I can't concisely describe them all now, but to summarize, Latchel is exceedingly slow to respond to all maintenance requests, including emergencies, and basically fails to communicate any information regarding the status of repairs.

., so basically we are 5k above where we were in 2016 pre-fire then based on that.

Quote from @David Switzer: I'll give some basic on the deal:7000 SF building, 3 floors, 2 apartments above 1 commercial.They are 3-bed 1 bath apartments, paying $3000/month.

Just tax basics here but LLCs can hold any tax election/status (disregarded, partnership, S-Corp, and C-Corp) but the default elections will be based on how many members are in the LLC. 

Other wise she could buy something with in a 3 to 5 hour drive for basically the same price and not have the weather issues.