I organize a meetup in South Minneapolis that has been going very well and gets people from all experience levels. 

-My old client/boss at an organization I worked at for 5 years wants me to go back to work for him this fall as a Senior Manager/Lead Software Engineer (contract role).

I'm going to make a weightlifting reference here, but I think it applies.If you look at countries who dominate the sport of Olympic weightlifting today, you'll see a handful of Asian and European countries.

I've worked in medicine, IT, environmental technology, organic chemistry, teaching, and customer service (assistant managed a IT help desk).

To answer your specific questions (but not necessarily suggesting that you should go the LLC route), the California Secretary of State actually provides a pretty good walkthrough on how to create/organize the LLC in California: http://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/llc/forms/llc-1.pdf. 

Is that owned by the park community or is that a community gov organization that is not owned by the park and services other properties?

I buy with organic savings, having the LOC just in case. 

Our KREIA is one of only six REIAs in the country that is still a nonprofitThe KREIA does an excellent job and I do hope this organization continues to grow.

Hi Alain, I just posted in another thread about organizing a BP get together before the next CIIQ conference: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/86/topics/350341-real-estate-club-in-montreal-ottawa-cornwall?

Community organizer showed up and LLC's need to report to him on properties.