What I'm really curious about now though, is whether or not moving the properties into an LLC in this fashion would reduce my personal number of financed properties when applying for additional loans, mostly with respect to the fannie mae reserve requirements."

I know this sounds crazy and doesn't make sense on the surface.

People don't understand thats what a lot of moldings were for, reconciling wavy and inaccurate surfaces.

The deal looked interesting from the surface, but has gotten better the further into it I have gone.

In addition, being able to get properties sold in an expedient and highest value fashion. 

Tax liens are not as easy as they seem on the surface. 

Most of the time you can just kill it with bleach(non-porous surfaces) or throw it away (porous material like drywall).

I have some goals that I'm trying to reach and I don't kindness doing it with of fashioned sweat equity and streetsmarts.

If you come in as a buyer with no agent and offer on a property that has a listing agent, the agent will probably try to get a higher fee by offering to represent/assist you in some fashion.

Our next step is to find out if vacant or not (our realtor seems to think is occupied), offer a small $ incentive to said tenants to move out in a nice and tidy fashion as to avoid damage to the property (if not, start the eviction process), get utilities changed in our name, get title insurance (via taxtitleservices) /clear the title, then work on the rehab :).