@Brian Puebla Why are you starting out with the most capital intensive enterprise.

It shall be an unfair or deceptive practice for an owner to: (a) require a tenant or prospective tenant, at or prior to the commencement of any tenancy, to pay any amount in excess of the following: 1. rent for the first full month of occupancy; and 2. rent for the last full month of occupancy calculated at the same rate as the first month; and 3. a security deposit equal to the first month's rent; and, 4. the purchase and installation cost for a key and lock.or, at any time subsequent to the commencement of a tenancy, demand rent in advancein excess of the current month's rent or a security deposit in excess of the amount allowedby 940 CMR 3.17(4)(a)3. 

Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.Take out all the "-eths" and you have sound advice for any business/investing enterprise in 2019!

Account ClosedFirst, determine if you really need to have an LLC - put your near, mid and long-term real-estate goals down in bullet form and meet with your accountant to determine the best ownership structure for you now and how to evolve it as your business grows.If you decide you need an LLC, have your real estate agent make your offer & subsequent contract with "Fili Aguirre and/or assigns"  as the purchaser and communicate to the vendor you may place the property into an LLC upon Close, you should have no issues making the deal first.

Subsequently moved across the country and kept our 3 bedroom 2 bath 1700sqft house.

To dig deep into what exactly you're trying to achieve would be the main question.Are you trying to use FHA, then free it up for subsequent use?

In a recent discussion with my go-to mortgage lender, it was stated that House Hacking using a FHA 3.5% down loan is a "one-and-done" thing because the FHA underwriters will almost certainly not approve a subsequent loan request on a 2-4 unit home because they will deem it an attempt to buy investment properties instead of truly owner occupy.Since I know there are surely many people here that have house-hacked multiple properties, I wanted to ask . . . have you used the FHA 3.5% down loan subsequently or multiple times? 

Or is the initial equity essentially tied up and unavailable to for subsequent deals until it is paid off to the initial credit equity line lender?  

Subsequently, an acquaintance asked me to be a project manager for a personal residence he was self-building.

I'm using "normal" in quotes intentionally as different schools have different cycles on when leases get signed for the subsequent year.