@Chris Blackburn, while I can't speak to this specifically, there are a few red flags I see in your post.1: A Realtor has to be a member of the national association of realtors, an industry trade group primarily focused on your typical home buyer.  

I followed up with an e-mail of the pictures post-tenancy and that was the end of that.

The trade-off that I don’t accept is that service would suffer.

Most landlord businesses DO qualify as a "trade or business."

After the first year of renting them, and if their values have risen enough, I'll "trade up" for something else with a higher cashflow (assuming I go for a higher downpayment.) 

You might have more luck attempting to call or meet them in person as opposed to sending out a generic mass e-mail.

The LLC is a pass through entity and will show up on your personal Schedule E and once the property shows up on the LLC, the debt (that probably won't show on your personal credit report) will be included in your total debt. 

You can provide a loan modification between you and the borrower that the bank may approve of and it would be made, executed, immediately at the time the note was purchased.

I’d like to trade it for this kind of property in this place. 

its kind of a trade off because i can get a newer property at a higher price and down payment, or get something older, less down and then use that money to fix what i need to fix.