To make it more confusing, that type of licensure is not sufficient for primary residence financing - either as real property or as chattel property as used for manufactured homes, or RVs or Marine craft being used as a primary residence.

They will also help you craft an OA that will allow your entity to stand on its own, and will help you understand how the entity must be managed to maintain that autonomy. 

Once you know those things you can start to craft future agendas.

I'm in the same boat but I'm meeting with a lawyer to finalize and craft my lease as well as have someone available for questions.  

Number one it saves time if the seller is not motivated and number two it let's them know I have asked questions ahead of time and crafted a serious offer.

However, you will need separate checking accounts for each LLC, and you cannot easily use money from one property to support another unless you maintain meticulous books.The way I do it is to establish an acceptable level of risk combined with the expense and burden of maintaining separate LLCs and combine properties in separate LLCs from there.

Start there, craft your ad, and it posts to Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, etc and gives you copy and paste coding to post on CL.   

I would recommend against entering into any kind of financial partnership without a carefully crafted, written agreement. 

I would love to network and study how experienced real estate investors are successful in their craft. 

Just takes some time to hone your craft and get experience and it doesn't really take that much money.