If you are going to be taking investors money, then you definitely need a securities attorney (and a pot of cash to pay for him or her.)  

No matter how many times you add to a pot, if your hand isn't good, your cards won't change.  

Living in Japan as I currently do, makes phone calls a bit tricky because of the time difference, but with solid reasons and a good pot of coffee, a phone call session is more than possible for me. :)

I could bench press 305 lbs 20 years ago. 

Distressed (behind on mortgage), probate, prospecting neighborhoods, calling vacant homeowners, calling for rent signs, bandit signs, ads (Facebook, Google PPC, bus benches, etc. . . ) networking, on the MLS, etc. . . 

This safe harbor serves two bench marks:1.

Then you have a large pot of money to start investing. 

I believe a good attorney could pierce the corporate veil of MOST LLS's started by novice RE investors, mainly because the LLC is undercapitalized and the borrowers have a tendency to take money from one pot to the other without regard to the rules of the LLC. 

I was looking at Bench and Winstead Park areas, maybe I need to look a little further?

I understand that this strategy is only applicable to folks who have very traditional views on marriage; where divorce is not an option and all income flows into one pot.