already searching and analyzing the Harris county. 

A flip is a business, so it is subject to ordinary income tax.The IRS does not care if you buy a house, improve it and resell it or you buy bread, mustard and lunch meat and make sandwiches - to them it is the exact same business model.You can search the vast number of writings I've done on this subject on Bigger Pockets.I agree with your CPA in all aspects and here is why.Running it through an LLC:  If this project comes in at a loss, how is your investor going to prove out their share of a loss or report it? 

I wasn't able to locate any via the search bar on my mobile device. please let me know if there's a better area either in or around Doylestown to attend a meeting in the foreseeable future.

I have realtors back home that can help me search for a deal,  but I have questions like...How do yall go about getting funding for your first investment? 

As far as access to capital, if you search enough I believe you can find the financing you need.

I couldn’t find much of anything while searching around.Looking to connect and meet new people to discuss RE investing in general.Cheers,Gerard

I have had my eye on some upcoming tax auction properties, mostly to watch and learn from the process, but if they go for the right price I may try to bid.Anyway, I am trying to do my due diligence stuff ahead of time both for practice and so I feel comfortable bidding up to a pre-determined limit... but I want to make sure I'm understanding everything right.1) Tax DEEDS - I've been searching a lot on these forums and it seems like there's more about liens than deeds, but in Idaho, it seems they do tax deed auctions. 

They're valuing your property based on a price per square foot that you or your 16 year-old nephew could do just by doing a free search on LoopNet.

@Judd CampbellLooks like the additional searching may be paying off.

It would be hard to determine the possibility of granting or denying an easement without jumping through a bunch of hoops, doing title searches, etc...