I want to avoid "Shiny Object Syndrome" while taking meaningful action and that led me to a false belief  that I had to be buying properties already or I would never be a successful real estate investor.

There are still concerns that FHFA's refusal to help bear some of the harm that its policies are inflicting on mortgage servicers will continue to restrict funding available to home buyers and evaporate a meaningful percentage of demand.

will LLC help in a meaningful way for the couple of properties you may have?

You'll have to repeat this over several months to start to see meaningful trends, but of course things may change dramatically over the next few months.

Most of these are sole props with very little in cash reserves and I don't think the government is capable of mounting a meaningful rescue effort for them.

Propertyware has an open API so you can hire someone to extract the data you need.

I have a very fulfilling and meaningful W-2, it makes me feel very good to help people in my job. 

I LOVE what Google has done to offer a simple, easy to use interface that allows for data extraction from Google Forms.

It's hard to get both in a meaningful way.

Zip codes are too geographically large to be meaningful and all of those zip codes you mentioned cover about half of the city.