We thought we read where being your own registered agent could lead to not only missing delivery of important items, being potentially embarrassed by being served items at work but could also cause you to fall out of good standing with the state.

It is best to talk to attorney, as there are other factories involved in creating LLC, such as partnering with others, leaving the asset to future generations and many more.

Buy lists of owners of properties of the type you might be looking for - multi-family 2 to 4 units, or who would be motivated single family owners:  send direct mail - lots of it.I do a lot of #1 and #3. . . if you have a brand new marketing machine, you need to spend more money on #2, if your machine is 15 years old like mine and your website already ranks, and you want to target your leads to specific properties and areas rather than a blanket ad across the metro, then I spend more money on direct mail and retargeting. 

I have been interested in REI for a while and my quest lead me to Biggerpockets. 

Multi families are the way to go from a mitigating risk standpoint (more doors = smaller risk per door), but more doors also = more tenants which CAN (not always) lead to more problems, just something to keep in mind.

While under certain circumstances it might be possible to create a partnership between qualified plan and disqualified person there is always likelihood that  such arrangement may lead to a prohibited transaction.

I have been looking at out of state investing and I would love to get your input on that and also how would you go about finding leads when you do not live in that particular state?

You would need to be a broker not an agent.Also there's typically no revenue stream generated from BPO's.

Owner had to do a lead cleanup a couple years ago b/c of CMHA, and it was professionally remediated.

Leads me to believe they are holding out for full price.