I took out a private loan from a family member to purchase the property, and from what I understand I will need to assign the loan from my name into the LLC as well. 

Lets get private money, or hard money for the repairs.  

I've been able to continue making purchases only through private, off-market deals.  

We purchase houses off the MLS or at auction using a rehab loan from a private lender, get the work done (mostly outsourced, though my husband likes to do some of it himself), pay our contractors with rehab draws from the loan, then list it using on online MLS listing broker and use our attorney for the closing.

Those conversations and relationships didn't last that long after.

I am planning to rent either a private room or an entire apartment in Houston.

I sent you a private message. 

I would definitely get permits for the garage conversion and definitely let your insurance know what's happening.

First, tell you boss at your company and make sure it's okay -- it doesn't do any good to make an investor mentor if you also lose your 9-to-5.As for approaching the individual: 1) explain why you're interested; 2) say that you did get the ok from your company, and that you're doing it in a totally private not-related-to-your-company way; and 3) offer to help out with his properties like you said.A key thing to be clear about -- if you offer to do any of your professional day-job work for him on the side as a favor for him helping you out, you need to be sure that your company doesn't mind you doing it.

Fairly new to BP and have a question for those who may be familiar with converting a Legal 2 family (multi-family) home to a Legal 3 family home.Does anyone know what is the process for doing this conversion in NJ (Jersey City) to be specific?