A wedding venue could work well near a lake.  

.- if the garage inspection card has legitimate progress approvals, I would argue with someone other than this manager, and I would find someone eventually above them or at their level, to objectively intervene.

There are venues in Conshy that may have similar arrangements, but I'm familiar with this one and it's worthy of consideration. 

Depending on when and how many people, I might be able to get a venue.

How do I go about structuring this partnership to make it legal and a legitimate business? 

Click on the link under "Entity Name" and you'll see that this is a perfectly legitimate company, that went through a little rough patch that they got straight with Reinstatement 3/25/14.

It's a little hard for me to find enough rents to get legitimate comps so I wanted to reach out to the BP MAryland/Baltimore community.

You’re going to be hard pressed to find a legitimate, reputable hard money lender that’s not going to require at least 10% down of purchase price, if not purchase price + rehab, especially with no experience on your resume.

If there's any chance at a problem with zoning issues, and you have a legitimate underwriter who's doing their job, then these issues will come about on their end. 

Would hiring a VA be worth it to field my phone calls during the day and allowing me to return those which are legitimate leads?