I want to be able to ask intelligent questions that will spawn some futher discussions which will help me gauge what he does.  

Hopefully I will be able to utilize my background in business intelligence/analytics, sales, marketing and social media to integrate in with learning about real estate investing as well as help others with things they may need to help grow their success!

Don't get me wrong, stick to your criteria and numbers #1, but if you're putting out safe (you mentioned low), well-analyzed offers, I wouldn't suggest limiting them just because you're artificially trying to lower the number of deals you have to analyze.

Think of a LLC, or a corporation, as a separate legal entity with the power of an artificial person according to the law (i.e. enter into contracts, bring a lawsuit, etc). 

I am trying to be intelligent about how I will move forward with this, but I can't wait to get it going.

That seems unusually high unless the hurricane has roof contractors busy and created some artificial price increase lately.

Your marriage has ended and it appears a new chance is starting, not only personally (Fiance) but in investing.I can't speak intelligently about the Bay area market, but I can say that if you have kids and they are living with you, that should be your first priority.

Living in Chicago currently.Mainly, I am looking for advice relevant to how I can start saving intelligently so that I may begin investing in real estate as soon as possible.

Means a lot coming from a wily vet like yourself.I believe there was an artificial spike in post counts a few weeks ago.

Lots of cool and intelligent people to learn from, let's connect.