I'm not aware of any lenders requiring 50% down.

Typically 25%+/- down payment is required.

My thought process is to purchase the property initially under my name so that we can pay 5% down as my understanding is that mortgages to LLCs are more difficult to find, have higher interest rates, and require a higher down payment (around 25%).

I also know their level of service went drastically down and would not be my top choice currently.2.

agreed here, I'd rather build up than build down in an older home

That is something that will be in the bid, and for the rehab you'll have to do everything top down.

I don't contribute anything to this website other than the posts i made about the person charging me.So now I get to go up against someone that has a million dollar lawyer while all I'd be able to afford was a free public defender.I am absolutely having a break down due to this websites inability to care about what their inactions do to people...agreeing to their terms of service when we make our accounts shouldnt give them the right to hold onto all the media if it creates massive problems for us.

The tenants complained about it, and I solved it by dropping a fence all the way down the property line and widening my side a little by having it repaved. 

If you go farther south in to Shelby county, prices go down.

Starting from the bottom, Recession, construction slows down and even stops.