This will save you a ton of time, energy, and frustration.I'll leave the tax-side to the tax pros here but just ensure all of your financial team members specialize in real estate.I'm happy to discuss more and will help any way I can.

My goals with the money will be to retire early, travel (I am a Flight Attendant), pay off my parents mortgage, give back to those in need, save money, and be able to do the things I want to do without the burden of constantly worrying about money. 

This makes cash flowing properties hard to come by imo.Several of my local investor club buddies are sitting on the sidelines, selling some inventory and building a cash hoard.Happy to help with info - as always - do your due diligence and do not blindly listen to some random poster on web sites.Good luck

Lots of info on the forum on this, and I'm happy to answer any questions on these

I spent a long time trying to look this up in many different words of verbiage in my search and found zero info

Love your insights and valuable experience. some of them do align with my later findings and specific info that I did not reveal yet. 

You'll save a ton of dough if it gets approved. 

As far as what most of them do - they set up a simple filter based on the info that you gave them, then you look and find houses that you like within the filtered range, contact them and let them know you want to see it, then they show you the house (based on their schedule around other clients).

You can often times save money and create a much better product than you would have had if you would have purchased it for a premium.

Your decision to post this question may have saved you 50-100k in taxes.