I want find a deal and put in an offer within the next 2 months.

Sub-to offers the seller the ability to walk away AND get their asking price. 

I wish I had more to offer, but my advice would be see what restaurants have good foot traffic, but are maybe suboptimal location, and then offer incentives to try and get them in.  

Hey Michael, Columbus offers a compelling investment landscape.

They can help you draft the offer to purchase.

I use AirDNA as well as Pricelabs to do some of my research, but I also search Airbnb and FF to see what's being offered.

I recently was on a call with a loan officer on this new shared appreciation loan program CA is offering.

I've never done this before, we usually just ignore the LLCs, but honestly its worth a try, if I were a lawyer I wouldn't disclose anything about my client but I would definitely pass on the offer.

"Real" real estate education is found in real estate agent and broker courses, both initial licensing and CE, certain colleges and universities, courses offered by legit organizations such as Appraisal Institute, CCIM, BOMA, NAR, CRE, MBA,  etc., textbooks on real estate, real estate law classes, and SOMETIMES in education offered by REIAs.

MiSTRA - the newly formed Michigan Short-Term Rental Association, does not support these bills as currently written and testified against it - we did a good job to be balanced and offered some ideas for improvements that could be much more favorable.