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.

There's a lot to this and it shouldn't be taken lightly, especially with friends or family.

They aren't toxic wasteland to eating establishment conversions. 

It all depends on your price point and what you're looking for in your next investment, but Connecticut has a lot to offer.

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

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

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.