If the lender states that there is no seasoning requirements to refinance based on ARV, the rates will generally be a bit higher. 

I called the Nevada Secretary of State office, and the phone representative confirmed that I called the right place to field questions about a Nevada LLC, yet they weren’t equipped to answer my question.Does anyone have some insight?

My wife and I had a lot of money stolen from us by a so-called property manager in Cleveland (who was later brought to court by the attorney general due to other crimes he committed) and we ended up being able to place the property with Re/Max Haven Realty. 

The benefit to HELOCs is that you generally have an alloted time period where you are only required to make interest only payments (then it will be amortized after). 

As a general rule I like to buy the worst house in an area and make it one of the best.

In general, if there's nothing in zoning or the deed restrictions prohibiting the division of the property, it's mostly just getting it resurveyed and presenting the new subdivisions to the local government (county usually) to have each lot recorded as separate parcels.

In Mexico, as you know, when you rent to visitors, you generally don't do LTR.

Hard Money lenders will vary with their general "friendliness" towards first time investors/flippers but there is availability for even a big portion of the flip financed (like 85% of costs) from some HMLs - believe it or not, you can get that much of your first flip financed!

Credit score- the higher the best. 760-780+ generally gets best pricing for investment property loans with most lenders.

LLC's are generally used to protect against contract issues.