We have a private lender that my partner already has an established relationship with who has no problem buying the properties for standard hard money terms. 

I am also looking to create an official REIA of western mass as I have not been able to find a fully established one as of now.If you're in the area, please feel free to reach out and connect.

I am not currently in a position to use my own credit to acquire funds to start (currently have too much consumer debt, along with student loans and building our own home to be completed in June), so I am not sure exactly what type of business plan to establish.

We need to establish an LLC as soon as possible, but I have a few questions first. 

Once I establish a strong financial foundation, I plan on moving to rehabbing and buying and holding.

For starters, I was looking and hoping to find good deals between B and C properties around Texas, Ohio, Georgia and Florida with little TLC or ready to move in, single family house or duplex at the beginning working with a budget less than 100k, and then again, I don't know or haven't met any realtors or lawyers or financial advisors in any of those areas.

Here's my story: I'm new to the real estate game- just establishing my funding and obsessively farming an area in my city that I KNOW is going to kill it in the next 5 years.My strategy is buy and hold, with my first property being being a house hack, and my plan is to move into a place that isn't turn key- something I can build up myself (I'm young and able bodied, and I wanna do it) or with the help of some light contracting.I ran in to two potential flippers walking through the same property.

What we are looking to do is have several LLC's established to separate everything and minimize exposure.  

I established a 501 (c) (3) charity/non profit corp.  

Am I better off trying to hone some wholesaling skills in order to establish myself?