if he is a member of the LLC I'm not sure a 1099 would work...just some other facets of your arrangement to think about.

Starting to network and building a team now will be vitally important to find those off market distressed deals. 

Build your team, boots on the ground are vitally important. 

The criminal check really wasn't vital but I wanted to make certain he didn't have any fraud charges or anything like that (I was simply being cautious). 

Growth and re-vitalization continues to creep further east and southeast from downtown.  

When you (investors) choose to pick up a rental property out of state, how vital is the knowledge of the subject's area to your decision making?

I’m currently still in the educational process as far as real estate goes and I’m not quite sure which facet of real estate I want to start out with.

In our case, though, the HELOC required us to take out a minimum amount ($25k) right away, so approval started the clock and we were paying interest and needed to be ready in all other facets, to not waste time once down payments was out of the way.Happy to chat more offline if it helps, or can send you lenders I worked with in this area.

Request the death certificate from the local county vital statistic dept.

There is a huge vitalization planned there and a proposed Brewery that has already got a lease on a building.