This should help protect your personal assets. 

I am now well invested in Stockton, have build up some expertise and have my systems in place and am in the process of consolidating here.

Let me know if you ever have any questions regarding rehabbing/fixing stuff when it comes up, as that would be my expertise. 

The main thing is make sure you are protecting your position in the deal. 4) what would you say the advantages of performing notes upon regular real estate investing (buying a house and renting).

[You won’t get lien release instructions in the “buying documents” but you can write those up for your friend to send to the title company when you refinance.]To truly protect yourself if you give money to a friend to loan back to you, your friend should agree in writing they are getting a personal loan from you in the amount they are lending to you for the house and that they agree to release the lien simply by you asking, or more importantly do as you direct them to release.

I emailed a local PM company and am asking them for their expertise on the expenses in the area.

There are a lot of people on here with great expertise in a lot of areas.

Looking to do a bunch over the next few months and want some input on best way to protect ourselves and those who partner with us.Should we set up new LLC's, partnership agreements, separate accounts or joint account for property, etc???

If I begin flipping, what possible issues could I be potentially exposing myself to that insurance may not protect me from and are these issues something that should concern me or are they low probability issues?

I'm totally reliant on the expertise available on the internet; Scott Meyers, Mark Helm, SSA, ISS, etc.