In a capitalist society every transaction is based on both the seller and the buyer/renter thinking they’ll be better off after the transaction.

It serves many benefits for both buyers and sellers and if a law had been passed long ago that all such private transactions were required to be serviced through a thrid party, we would not have as much regulation addressing the issues we have today, specifically, the individual investors under the SAFE Act!

In terms of the lady spending all her time reporting violations... yikes.There are a few maps online that show the unincorporated areas of pinellas county down to the street, and then you can cross reference the county zoning website.

This is usually not available in wholesale transactions.

This will open up doors and expose you to different real estate transactions that go on in your market.

I have stuck with SFR’s, and it almost feels like I’m high at certain points of the transaction!

Quote from @Michael Smythe: @Zehua Zhou usually, your 401k will lend funds to your LLC.In that case, you would give a PMC the LLC EIN.You really should get advice from a tax professional.Michael, what you are proposing is a "prohibited transaction" defined by the IRS. 401k would be prohibited from lending funds to the account owner's LLC.  

If you are closing outside a title company, which it sounds like this is the situation that you are in, you would simply need to ask an attorney for a note and deed of trust, (once you have completed your 1st transaction, I would ask your title company for a draft Note and Deed of Trust).Once you execute the Note and Deed of Trust, and have it notarized, you simple take it to your local county clerk to have it recorded, the Deed of Trust will have the mailing address of the lien holder, and the original will be mailed to them in 1-2 weeks.Hope that helps, Dustin 

I have no skin in the game here -- I have not done any transactions with Neu Real Estate Group yet. 

But I also see the selling point of being “closer” to the beach area as mentioned by others.Anyways, we are considering going with the bigger/cheaper house for the first invest, fingers crossed!