This implies finding a structure exempt from TN's excise/franchise taxes, rendering inheritance taxes inapplicable when my parents pass away, and if possible, that my parents obtain the income from the rental property so that they end up paying taxes instead of me.

Bank loans may be harder to obtain because the properties are cheap.

A formal education can be valuable as you will need to educate yourself on the space one way or another prior to just jumping in but nothing can take the place of the experience gained by doing deals.Your options for obtaining experience are to continue your investing activities while educating yourself, hire a mentor to help you do a deal, passively invest in a development project and learn along the way or get a job working for a developer.Development is risky, difficult, time consuming and requires thick skin and a lot of capital but it is very rewarding in a lot of ways not just financially.

If this bill is signed into law, every lender who makes a loan secured by a dwelling, regardless of the purpose of the loan would need to obtain a mortgage lender license.”If you loan in Florida, or are simply concerned, you might want to take action and follow the instructions near the bottom of the link.

IF you are obtaining title insurance, the title commitment will tell who the name of the person "in title". 

The advance to using say a TX LLC in OK is that you don't have to obtain another TAX I.D., bank account, or operating agreement. 

It's easy to obtain, costs very little, and doesn't require additional, on-going effort to maintain.

I am in search of an individual that can pull me comps from the spacecoastmls from time to time, it be nice to meet somebody I can build a relationship with and refer some leads to. I'm local to the Melbourne area!

These same rate increases have made it possible to obtain close to 5% in money market or CDs without any effort or risk.  

I obtain all real estate tax advantages and my income is well over >150k.