I know some people online say that the government covers repairs but I haven't seen that in any of the documentation and from what I've heard from fellow investors that is a lie.

I was thinking perhaps good locations with a decent amount of properties would be sufficient. given that I was bringing in enough to make sure that I could pay everything off yearly and pocket a few thousand for savings or renovations. 

Its saves time for our investors because we've done the hunting and the analysis.

Savings, credit cards How did you add value to the deal?

We plan on using a money marketing account to save with until we buy our property to live in rather than it be a rental property after the next 6 years.

So if you just create an LLC I can go look at the county clerks office online and see who the owner is.

Both states have fill in the blank on line forms that take  about 15 minutes to fill out, instructions are provided, and the resultant Articles of Organization are state approved.  

I've saved up about 10k from investing in stocks and working.

You save loan fees.

We have a good amount of equity in our current home, we have saved a good nest egg in standard investments (that we could tap into), and we do have $100k + in cash.