There are tons of ethical wholesalers in your home state, who post in some sort of non specific NJ RE investor Facebook group, who definitely do not daisy chain their deals, inflate ARV's or just post crap that's literally on the MLS.

The very first thing you should do before getting into any sort of real estate investing is to learn your local market.

Typically, when I work with RE investors, we'd make a preliminary legal plan to ensure that both the legal and business goals align before creating any sort of entity set-up.

There are some institutions that allow you to use both W2s and Bank Statements to qualify if you hold a side business of some sort. 

An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).

The City would likely not want you to have any sort of kitchenette and definitely won't want you to have a shower.

Offering that information at any time (even after closing) I would think would start all sorts of problems.

Alternatively there are several 'plug & play' national brokerage that allow you to work with a variety of up to 100+ banks/lenders but the challenge is again sort of being on your own when it comes to processing, disclosing and closing.

Is between 12 and 16 days sort of a normal situation in Vegas currently?

The way these softwares work is that you normally have to select some sort of dropdown or checkbox to get the classification that you want.