I am preparing to move to KC this month for a new position with my corporate job and I will soon need to make some decisions if I want to get into real estate investing.

Problem is even though smaller local banks may have issued the mortgage originally, almost always they have been sold off or assigned to larger corporations or hedge funds, especially once they stopped performing. 

They may complement...Good luck.

I'm a little fuzzier on the home office, cell phone, etc. since its a passive investment.Its usually not advisable to hold real estate in a corporation, i.e.

My brief professional career so far has been in the tax industry, both at the individual and corporate levels.

What company do I go with to setup a LLC? I think I want to use Tennesee.

I am also getting a little tired of Corporate America.My wife, Catherine, and me would be partners in the investing.

However, in talking to 1 corporate lender and 2 credit unions today I got the answer of 1099 income will not be able to be used under any circumstance during the pandemic.

The buyer instead now for the 6.25 cap could have just bought a 3 tenant Aspen Dental, Starbucks, T-mobile type center with corporate tenants and 10 year leases with 10% RENTAL increase every 5 years.

If you do want to, you can filter out corporate owners and owners that have multiple properties.