"blanket discrimination against felons"I think these ordinances will be deemed unlawful or overturned or changed and watered down to a point that they don't have any real teeth to the ordinance.A felon is not a federally protected class.Blanket is the key word you used which would imply SWEEPING discrimination which would be almost impossible to prove.A landlord would simply find another reason not to rent to them.Just like a contract there are always more loopholes to use if you don't want to do something.

It could cost many thousands in attorney fees to set up a lending practice and become licensed, secure bonding insurance, create multiple entities, and all that comes with becoming a lender.

It will be rare to find one who understands Real Estate to the extent as many of the contributors here on BP.If you do meet with one, speak to a fee based advisor vs. commission based to reduce the risk of conflict of interest.Chances are you will be given a recommendation for insurance, mutual funds or some kind of managed money product in stocks & bonds in an allocated portfolio for retirement, education accounts if you have kids, etc.Remember that a Financial Advisor's isn't there to help you become wealthy.

I own a duplex, no LLC, for security deposit, I read online that for NC it needs to be in a trust acct or a bond for that amount?

You could stick it in a savings account for .5% interest, or a CD for maybe 3%, mutual funds, individual stocks, bullion, bonds, etc, etc. 

Notes, bonds, REO's, anything.

Would you drill your own teeth?

The items I don't get at lows or HD because they are not competitive are Windows, moldings, flooring (Kristian I know you are in San Diego and bonded flooring has the best carpet pricing- ask for John Russell) Right now we have a few projects going so I had one of our interns hunt down some engineered hand scraped walnut flooring for 2.50 per sq ft through craigslist).

Despite all that, he feels entitled to owning a Rolls Royce, lived in a$15k a month Penthouse in Miami with it’s own private pool, go on luxuriousvacations, live an exorbitant lifestyle and spend tens of thousands on strippers at his favorite hangout, Dean’s Gold in Miami.About his Mugshot, $100k cash bond and court tracking device.Example of how he would embezzle company funds via his Amex to his girlfriends paypal.$490,551 Judgment , $1,864,813.15 Judgment, $113,264 Judgment….Extorting his wife not to divorce him to get his green cardDeceived investor/friends into lending him moneyExorbitant Lifestyle at investors expenseLuxury VehiclesPaid for all his legal and immigration expenses$300,000+ in personal IOU’s owed meI was financially comfortable until Tulga came along and wiped me out.etc, etc,etc.

A conventional loan means it meets conforming standards so that Fannie Mae will purchase the loan to package it in a mortgage bond.