Instead of recommendations and professional advice from her I found myself with more questions than answers often times, and her newness and lack of confidence left me feeling like I couldn't trust her.I think you're already 4 steps ahead of her as you're here asking the questions and are engaged on the BP forums which in my opinion, besides having a great broker with seasoned agents to learn from in person, is the MOST important thing.

I'm Evan and I've been reading about real estate investing (and other personal finance books) over the summer and I have learned alot and would like reach the seventh level of wealth via real estate.

You can see how extended furnishing timeline to save money may not be the wise financial choice.- who lives in primary unit?  

Are you refinancing because you need to take money from equity for the divorce?

Would like to pull money out of that home for a downpayment on another home.

Hello Ethan,I think the main difference between traditional banks and credit unions are their guidelines, most credit unions are manual underwriting, because they are using their own money and keeping the loans. 

If I set it up this way, then the monthly distribution would go to the Wyoming LLC's business account first before going to my personal account, which is fine but another layer of trouble.

I don't have much for down payment, and I'm hearing that you don't need money to start.

When you get their bill pay them the same day in Person.  

I can say that managing remotely is a challenge for many, I don't really know what value a person could bring trying to perform management services remotely for a third party.