I want to best utilize my time, not just be busy or have somewhere to be fulfilling some sort of false sense of purpose.

Also, what sort of rates have you been seeing.

Our tax returns are 125 pages long and have all sorts of little historic twists and turns that only my accountant can unravel if I ever was questioned.

If long term and sort term are under separate LLCs then have separate accounts.

One thing I know to be true in this business is that there is no one way to skin a cat.

I am trying to get transferred and it is not my intention to stay in my currrent house, but this lender insists that since I cannot predict the future it is sort of a given I intend to stay.  

Am I only allowed to do so many before being seen as a business and needing to get some sort of license?

I'd look in the nicest neighborhood you can reasonably afford ... smallest, most run down house on a really nice block sort of thing.

Is there some sort of consequence or something that goes on someone's record if they've been evicted? 

there is only so many ways to skin a note....