We were looking in the Smokey’s and in Florida but we might just shift to our hometown and house back it with the ADU unit utilized for STR. 

No - but I'd say about 90% of my borrowers/investors utilize an LLC for what it's worth. 

Just a follow up question, were you utilizing debt to invest, I have always been taught since a young age to try and not utilize debt (I come from a family of stock market investors, traditional business owners) where debt is not utilized as frequently which I obviously understand debt can be a very powerful tool and utilized in a great way its just something I want to avoid with my investments to an extent any suggestions for investing without debt or as little as possible. 

I'm currently reading David Greene's "BRRRR" book and I will be utilizing my VA Loan as a first home purchase (duplex) for my first home utilizing the VA Loan.

I'm assuming you are arriving at your cash flow number by applying Gross income - cap ex, maintenance, utilities, vacancy, tax, insurance, mgt, landscape/snow & Debt service?

We've utilized the VA loan for our current home, and this strategy has worked well so far.

See if those can be covered for utilities.7.  

They’re requesting what feels like an unreasonable amount of information, and the demands keep escalating.So far, they’ve asked for:A video tour of my home officeCredit checks on me and my partnerCopies of the deeds for every property we ownA copy of my partner’s home lease and utility billsBusiness phone billsA signed letter from the bank verifying our accountsBank statementsHonestly, it feels more like qualifying for a loan than trying to become a customer.

Is there a way to utilize the "gift" feature illustrated in the tax code? 

And you can be a landlord that gets a very poor return because they haven't utilized their space well by changing the layout.