You are still personally guaranteeing the loan.And you did the right thing by putting the assets into an entity, especially if there is equity.

I personally would rather just continue with the second bank, why go back to the first one.

A realtor doing high volume, you don't have to use one you can poll 3-5 agents see what they do to get you the comps and then pick that person to help you.

If a person has to ask, at all, I STRONGLY advise to use a PM service for tenant placement. 

Quote from @Michael Challenger: I have no qualms with hard money lending, but I need to learn more about the process and structure to these for typical deals so that I am more comfortable and in a position to reduce my personal risk and risk to investors as much as possible.

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Hey folks, Due to a lot of depression and personal issues, I let my property taxes go unpaid for close to three years.

It's not worth hiring a lawyer but as you suggested, small claims court may be an option IF you hired them in your personal capacity OR if your jurisdiction allows LLC owners to go to small claims and represent the LLC in court (many, most?

Being a curious person, I gained an interest in real estate investing due to other classmates being interested in real estate.

Since your an estimator are the materials and labor based on facts (i.e. hard costs a labor units) or a guess.Nothing personal but I wouldn't consider anything you wrote there, if I was buying I'd do my own estimate/SOW.