As I don't have large down payment, I am thinking to start building a portfolio with finding off market deals that have equity and do bit rehab/renovate and later get refinanace to pay off HML with a traditional lender/DSCR loan. please share any thoughts on my plan and any lending resources.

Typically, when I work with RE investors, we'd make a preliminary legal plan to ensure that both the legal and business goals align before creating any sort of entity set-up.

Hi all, Is the only way to figure out where future development planning is occurring is to go to city council meetings? 

You can buy a BUNCH of insurance for that.I personally like having an LLC, but if it would save me $850 per month on each house I own I hold them all in my personal name lol.

Hello,I'm going to be a first time MF buyer and plan on house hacking. 

Drug out the process so long I had to pay additional EMD to save the deal.

None of those options includes "taking $100,000 now and letting the rest sit in the inherited IRA until I make another plan". 

A call to the Planning Dept revealed this 'minor' inconvenience.

And that leads me to where I am at now, currently gutting and setting up a plan to renovate the building.

Your long term plan will help make these decisions as well.