I’ve established back-up to my systems and standards through a contractor who also manages several properties.

Tutorials  emphasize the need to do due diligence on all the following:--check for taxes and liens against the property--find out which taxes and liens, if any, will remain attached to the property--make sure it is a buildable lot--to do above, you need to establish how the lot is classified for code purposes, and access the lot specifications, minimums the lot must meet for construction to be allowed--you further need to find out what its sewage situation is because 1) municipalities have different lot minimum specification for lots with public sewage and lots with septic; and 2) if the lot will require the construction of a septic tank, you need to take that into account in your decision.

I am in a time crunch as I assume I can't list and show the property until I have the legal framework established.

Seek advice from legal and tax professionals to establish the most suitable structure for your US investments.

They aren't toxic wasteland to eating establishment conversions. 

My end goal is to establish enough business credit to get approved for some business lines of credit.Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

If you establish a business foundation you can invest with family successfully. 

neither are we, so we are pushing volume we want a lot of people doing it so there are transactions and established values for the product we are building. it is economies of scale.

I’d have ZERO interest without a written commitment from a well established power company with assets to seize if they failed to follow through. 

Initially I was planning to establish an LLC for liability protection, but after several consultations with different law firms, entity structures seem more complicated and much more expensive than what I need just starting out and with and no real wealth to protect.