Advertise with your local "Welcome Wagon", cut a deal, first month free or free cable....Buy T-Shirts and sweat shirts. put you logo, company name, number with your slogan.

The best is to send a priority mail with a postal stamp on it, as it would be useful as prove in front of the court. 

A nice lady will take the form you’ve already completed from the states website and stamp it.You’ll pay her $70 and you’ll walk out with your articles of formation.

You have printing, paper, envelope, stuffing, sealing and stamp.

This is only if qualified as "real estate professional", correct me if I am wrong.Some of this is deductible as an expense, some of it should be considered as basis in your next property.For example, the following are expenses of your **current** business and can be written off against your current rental income.Cell Phone and Internet (some people only write off parts of these depending on volume of use, etc)Office Supplies (paper, envelopes, stamps, pens, pencils, etc)Mileage for self management of propertiesTravel expenses for you to go check on your propertiesUmbrella Insurance for current propertiesCPA fees for bookkeeping and preparing taxesLegal fees for ongoing business such as leases and evictions.BP membership if you're using it for research on how to manage your **current** properties, such as tenant/landlord issues, DYI repairs and stuff like that.Unless you are a real estate professional, any expenses incurred to find your **next** property are NOT deductible as incurred and are instead added as depreciating basis to the **next** property you purchase.  

Also I've heard of banks freaking out when the insurance is in the name of an LLC which does not match name on your mortgage.Lastly depends on your state but you might have doc stamps or other transfer taxes when you transferred to an LLC

Don't forget to put an actual stamp on it. 

Once your TX LLC is approved, you'll get back a stamped and approved Certificate of Formation and a Certificate of Filing.4.

So I got myself into a tight spot submitting plans without an engineer or architect's stamp.

Don't ever buy for appreciation, that's how people lost their shirts (one of the reasons) in 2008.