Now if you can find a deal for another GP or help them raise their capital or perform any of the other tasks noted above you can market yourself as a CO-GP and put the property on your website and represent yourself as the GP in your marketing materials to bolster your credibility and raise capital for your own deals.

You may create a taxable event here.You get a SDIRA to invest in real estate or other investments  Check the IRS website, this is all real. 

Indeed this is a problem that is prolific on all these forum type websites.

I don't know about Texas but in North Carolina about 75% of the time you can find the LLC's owner name and home address by doing the following:Go to your secretary of state website (state not national)Look up the corporation nameAt least 75% of the time the LLC owner will register with themselves as the registered agent and their home address as the mailing address.If this doesn't work you're probably looking at more trouble than it is worth.

@Carolina Lau most of us in Texas use August REI (you can see their website HERE) however, I'm not sure if they cross state lines. 

@Wayne Brooks your explanation is what I would expect but I keep reading on various lawyer web sites that the transfer tax is 7% of the current mortgage which for a 150k mortgage is 10,500, which is just nutz!

I want to give the website work to a VA.

As a result, I've been driving for dollars and mining the county auditor's website for properties with delinquent taxes.

As long as the zoning for STR is good, you should be good and with a 2/1, you can go more crazy on the beach theme and furnishings which is the only way to be successful in a market where there are a lot of other options.

You should have a blog on your website that has a signup popup.Feed those signups into a Constant Contact, Mailchimp, etc CRM and send out a weekly/monthly eNewsletter of your blogposts.You'd also manually enter any targets into that CRM.You can check out how we've done it:)