The first has good live customer service you can chat with (Jack), but he can't do a .... thing about anything.

BP is so large now, unfortunately, there are a lot of "professionals" advertising their services here but don't know the REI industry.So, to protect yourself in the future, I'd ensure at least a few other REIs have worked with the professional you choose to hire and have received enough value from them to refer their services.You can always ask the professional for references as well and they should have no problem providing a few if they are good at what they do.Just my 2 cents.

When I separate from the service I plan on making real estate investing my full time job.

You need his rank, time in service (you can even guess really, doesn’t vary a ton), and zip code.

thanks for that so is 1.5% bad bc that's what that person messaged me  there is no regulation on Transactional funding basically its whatever you can negotiate.. 1% is the going rate from most.. some will be higher some will be lower.. just google around for TF funding and and talk to a number of those funders to find your best deal.there are half a dozen of these folks or so on BP that do provide this service maybe they will catch this thread or maybe you do some snooping around on the site and find them.

The company called THD (http://www.temporaryhousingdirectory.com/services/temporary-housing/) answered one of my rental adds from Hotpads...offering me more than I was asking...for a fire victim family. 

You are in a great spot to re-start your journey, especially with the help of your VA benefits and service to your country.

Yes, you can ultimately own a property with little/nothing out of pocket when you're done - but when you reposition with today's rates even moderately leveraged stabilized assets can be hard to find cashflow with debt service and a realistic operating expense load.

We did a second Land Trust deal with another local company as trustee and had absolutely abysmal service.

The likelihood that any lender or servicer is going to look at transfer records to see if one of their thousands of loans moved from personal to LLC is simply not going to happen.