Whoever taught you that I would go to them and do what they did as this setup for an ownership structure in my opinion is far to complex and your CPA is going to be scratching there head at end of year with all the tax stuff they will have to do and how you have to keep bank accounts for each entity and move money form one to the other to the other....

Without knowing more, just based on what you said, you are in WAY over your head and will keep digging a bigger hole doing what you are doing.

Y'all don't want to learn what or how it happened, all y'all do is look at the title and  beat a SO over the head with it.

We will "data dump" off top of head, because we live this, it's our ever waking life to be informed. 

Others have all hit the nail on the head but going to reiterate.

If you are headed into retirement, my way would still be way safer than your plan.

Meetups + books + podcasts are the way to go, but meetups are the most crucial to your confidence level and to know people like you do this every day.I agree with @Nathan Gesner on the heads up, when you say you are new and want help, everyone has a pitch, that's why meetups are so good - most have no pitch, just networking, unless it's run by a hard money lender.I have a couple friends who invest in the Lehigh Valley that I can connect you with when the time comes.

I guess I'll just follow up real quick - I did indeed just setup another mailbox, labeled them "A" and "B", and for the last 4 years I've never head any problems.

I found Brant Phillips' book "How to flip a house" very thoroug.

If you clear your head to the idea that it is possible to lose money, but that there are ways to mitigate the possible downsides, you will be much more likely to take action.