Honestly there are several career paths that will help (Renovation contractor, real estate agent, corporate RE analyst)  but depending upon whether you are looking for a career investing/flipping versus using your W-2 career income to build more by flipping, you can approach it better in my opinion by learning through doing.Flipping especially 1 at a time isn't a full time job and my thought is that you get help on your first, maybe first few flips. 

You can often hire them at a reduced rate.

What are any contingency plans or other options we can look at in the event this will not close.

Feel free to shoot me a message if I can help any. 

Quote from @Mike Gorius: Quote from @Jonathan Greene: wholesaling is not worth it if you aren't an experienced operator.How can you say that?

You can definitely create an LLC independently but its the OA language that's the tougher part and something that should be reviews with legal expertise. 

I suspect they drew you a flow cart and then your conversations went something like this: I need to transfer my properties to an LLC for anonymity.They are told they are not anonymous & that is not asset protectionBut I need it anyway for tax savings.They are told there’s no meaningful tax advantages  But I can get non recourse debt because the LLC is the borrower.They are told they still have to personally guarantee the loanNo, I can get non recourse debt I read all about it.They are told yes, while that is true, the leverage is customarily low, applies to much larger CRE transactions and there are still carve outs.

Am I able to raise the new lease by 262 and put the unit at the FMRAlso, can I find out a head of time if the housing authority will pay it ? 

If you don't have money, you can earn it.

It takes 30-45 days, can be done online and needs to be renewed annually.