A few details...We're about 9 months short of our 2 years needed to avoid capital gains.

Yes, you should avoid carpet as it is more costly down the road.  

I'm anticipating 6k in repairs.My first thought was to do a traditional cash out refi, but I want to avoid the seasoning period and the headache of finding a bank willing to do a cash out refi on an investment property, particularly at such a low value.I'm considering an intrafamily loan of 65k thats properly attached to the deed.

But, be sure they send videos and are thorough to avoid getting ripped off (which we've seen too many times).

I'm trying to avoid looking like an idiot when I offer to close fast and then 2 weeks later we're still waiting on the lawyer to close.

This is important to avoid getting in trouble with a contract that was poorly written causing your deal to go south.

Sometimes this means more invoices and longer project times so definitely avoid these kinds of contractors at all costs.

I'm aware that full time realtors typically do quarterly tax payments to avoid penalties and to minimize their tax burden once April 15th comes but I'm wondering if that's still required/recommended for me since I only did that one deal and also pay taxes as a W2 worker?

In the same way, if another child brings a toy and doesn't share it but it flaunting it at other children, I talk about how that is actually his toy so he can do what he wants with it, but that his behavior is ugly and he is trying to make other children feel ugly, too--he is trying to make then envious, and why it isn't his owning of the toy that's the problem but his nasty behavior and how we can avoid being dragged down with him, etc.I make sure my kids both succeed and fail.

Maryland also requires a physical address (no po box), how can I avoid having to using my personal addressMy thought is to set two LLCs owned by a single trust or another LLC in a separate state as the owner of the MD LLCs.