Owning properties through LLCs in their respective states avoids the need to register a foreign LLC, which adds costs and administrative requirements.If you plan to acquire properties across multiple states, you could create a parent LLC in Florida and have individual property-specific LLCs (child LLCs) in each state.

Usually this comes down to personal goals and preferences.

I’d list them each empty and individually.

The trustee, borrower or bank can ensure you get your hand slapped hard for approaching the circumstance as a work-out or foreclosure fix it guy without a license or being an attorney.Let's say that we can approach the owner and be in compliance, which you can.You will not purchase a note as an individual investor from a bank that has started foreclosure by making an offer like that.You get a request from the borrower for the bank to sell the note in lieu of payoff as demanded.

VA loans are typically meant for individual borrowers, not businesses or entities.

There are always some self-righteous individuals who try to appear as very professional figures in this community. 

Any individual would be out their real estate.

From my limited understanding of how they work is that S8 is a federal program that the local HA apply to so the funding is "Unlimited" as in that the local HA isn't individually funded.

I prefer young and hungry over worn and jaded. 

I had generally been just saving my expenses in google sheets to further organize later and receipts in google drive since I can more easily access and upload all my paperwork from my phone and access my drive from anywhere.I have and use excel for some things, but I generally would prefer something more geared towards real estate.