My financial situation is pretty unusual.

You are expecting 2189 a year at your calculations, however, its actually 2 units, so you are getting 1050/door/year which is pretty thin for the privilege of a mandatory job as property manager for 2 tenants, since you dont have enough budget to hire a real PM and scale your empire.

Continuing on your path and buying a multi-family unit every six months to a year would get you scaled up pretty quickly in five years.

So for our section it is pretty much there.

My wife, who was working very part time for pretty low pay has decided to quit and focus that time on REI, so I'm pumped about that. 

The area is pretty hot right now .

There's no hard and fast rule, but the general consensus is that you're pretty safe from IRS scrutiny if you hold for at least 12-18 months.

I look at website as a bonus that you build over time.One other thing I've had success with is creating and promoting a Facebook page for your property. 

Jason Lawrence jay pretty much hit the nose on the head.

You will need to pay the annual registration, Registered Agent in those states and then file a tax return in Illinois as a Foreign Business Entity which pretty much blows away all the privacy and no taxes due in Nevada or wherever these folks use to sell their snake oil.