This process can uncover a lot of information on a property.

I know it's been awhile since you've found a deal that met your criteria. 2) Consider the fact that you have a seller interested in selling and that now that you've uncovered this issue during due diligence, the seller is required to disclose it to anyone else the sell to.

Our first rehab uncovered plank walls (no studs) built from wood planks taken off rail cars or concrete forms from large buildings.

One falls through and you find the next because the others available at the time you went into contract are gone.Just dealing with this today with a client where some good due diligence by his realtor late in the deal uncovered some bad acting on the selling broker and owner. 

Even for leasing Im willing to find a not so nicer place and fix it up myself if the price is right.

After I uncover all I can do I let escrow do the rest?

So nice you now have some baseline pictures you can use over and over to avoid this the next time as long as the present an accurate picture of the current condition.3. 

I'm taking initiative to analyze deals on a consistent basis for practice and to uncover potential opportunities.

An out of state LLC can still be deemed to have nexus with California if you are managing the LLC from within California - in which case California would still want fees if they uncovered your LLC. 

Ever since I had uncovered what a partial was, I knew that this was the only way I wanted to structure my deals.For the first few deals, I wanted to have the back end payments, along with $50 a month for 6 months but nothing upfront.