Essentially the house needs a ton of work, 100k easy.

Its essentially like running 100's of mini-hotels scattered across multiple locations. 

I currently have a 16 acre parcel zoned as rural residential 10 that I would like to break into 3 parcels, essentially re-zoning as rural residential 5, but our county has recently buckled down on parcel divisions so I want to hear what others have done to get the county to grant a re-zoning request or an exception for a specific lot/ lots.

Since I'm learning I would work for free for a few months until I got the hang of it.Yes I want the job, but not at the cost of my safety.

You could then essentially market those deals before you market them on the mls(even though you would eventually put it on the mls), still bringing your buyers "off market" deals.

If they just want to hand over responsibility for their safety they should have to hire, on their dime, an inspection from a third party company. 

Not sure they are still doing it as the market has changed a bit.It's my experience that pet rent also discourages multiple pets and essentially rules out those folks with a pack.

This essentially doubles the time to get a property back for a lease violation.

From my understanding an LLC would essentially create a corporate veil and restrict my taxation to up to 35%.

I've made a decent living over my brief investing career in Austin, but I've warned many out of state investors to the same thing that @Jay Hinrichs mentioned, which is that we have no state income tax here, which means that our property taxes are astronomical to make up for it.If you live here, it's immaterial, but if you live in a state with income tax, you're essentially getting taxed twice (and yes, I'm aware of (some) of the complexities of cross-state earnings and how they're taxed).