Now, I’m rebuilding my portfolio while continuing to help others buy and sell homes.

It is a very long term investment but would sell for insane profits C.

Ah screw it, you can sell it for the same amount right.

I wouldn't imaging the state where the entity is registered makes a big difference for most buying and selling purposes as long as you can provide all of the required documents for title purposes.

This probably means the 1st year you are on the phone 8 hours a day 5 days a week calling people and trying to convince them to sell.  

Any development work they've done on the property also becomes your property.If the property becomes yours, you could try to sell it back to them quickly and below market for a nice profit.

I thought you were building to sell.

To answer your questions here though:Alternative options - I was going to sell all my stocks and etfs, take out a HELOC, and some credit cards to try to shoestring together enough to the deal without a hard money loan. 

From what I understand, you have an appraiser go out and give their opinion of what it could sell for but what happens from there?

You don't have to fit into a traditional "avatar" box to bring valuable insight, so don't sell yourself short. :)This is especially true if you rely on furnishedfinder.com as your primary lead source (which you shouldn't, but that's another post) as when you make that connection with a prospective resident, you are selling yourself as a landlord as much as you are the property as a place to live.