If we buy NPN's in the area, it might make more sense to liquidate these at sales as opposed to taking them back as REO's.

For a Lead Safe certificate (which shows that lead dust levels are within tolerances and has to be re-done periodically, as opposed to Lead Free, which shows that there isn't any lead to worry about and doesn't have to be renewed) almost all scenarios can be remediated by cleaning or repainting (followed by cleaning, of course). 

I've found a lot more success working with newer brokers as opposed to experienced brokers, who, rightly so, have a lot of preferred buyers that they're initially bringing all of these deals to. 

As opposed to suburbs where generally you're going to see a higher % of homeownership.I know there is a section about the rent by room strategy in the book "The House Hacking Strategy".

It is because I support free trade capitalism that I oppose most tariffs.

I got another quote from a company called Kin that was about half as much, however $500k of liability (maxed out) as opposed to the $2M we had at proper.

That actually just sounds like your agent is hustling and trying to find buyers himself, as opposed to only relying on buyer agents to show the property. 

I just want to confirm, I am not opposed to LLC's and have them, but 99% of people set them up wrong by first buying a proeprty, having a loan on it, then just transferring it to the LLC.

Tell a story about how all those experiences combined end up with a great experience as opposed to check in and check out. 

Helocs (as opposed to heloans) are interest-only for a period of time, usually 10 years, so during that time the monthly payment is lower on a DTI calculation than a first position mortgage with the same balance.