If you through the system, it's pretty easy and says to choose your bank and log in as normal once you find your bank in the list.

My wife and I have owned an Airbnb since early March and are doing pretty well so far.

The tax advantages of buying/holding gas stations are pretty great.Many of the components of gas stations including pumps, tanks, external parking areas, and other equipment are classified as either 5 or 15 year property so you can bonus depreciate a lot of it (minus the land value) and get significant deductions in year 1.With the current bonus depreciation rate at 60%, a $1 million gas station acquisition could still lead to $100K+ in year 1 deductions depending on the specifics of your deal.

Life has been pretty subtle for me.

Plus, forming and dissolving LLCs is pretty affordable right now, so why take the unnecessary risk, right?

All these manufacturers are pretty good, just contractors get married to one brand and not use others. 

We started the process with her lenders saying that we could do anywhere from 65% LTV to 75% LTV pretty comfortably with a minimum loan amount of 75K.After starting the loan process, I learned that the lenders this MLO was working with were only offering 100K minimum.

I will be doing a pretty large renovation in one of the units, and mostly cosmetic reno in another unit, so i'm wondering what the best way to go about dealing with any potential lead issues in this case.

A 72-T exemption known as a Substantially Equal Periodic Payment (SEPP) is a pretty rigid agreement.I don't think you will be able to accomplish the rents-only goal.  

Although I have not yet purchased my first tax deed property, I have been spending a considerable amount of time researching the tax deed sale process and the tools that can be used to streamline the process as much as possible- one of those tools being PropertyOnion.com.The website seems to provide a wealth of knowledge for pretty much any property you'd like to research, and provides data that could be useful to a variety of RE investors.