Are you able to recommend the lender you worked with?

@Paul D. this will depend on the particular lender, perhaps even the particular underwriter at a given lender. 

Will the LLC eventually have credit of its own that I can utilize or do lenders always look into the LLC owners credit?

- My next step would be talking to lenders and realtors in all three cities to understand the current market better.

@Arshiya TaamiTalk with multiple lenders. 

I've had my head in books, scoured the web for every new term, researched the nitty gritty of any claimed new strategies I'd never heard of, been ripped off on a couple force fed guru "best way" webinar sales, backed out of a deal where they tried to stack the cards against me in a very sneaky way, passively attended a few meetups, talked to numerous lenders and even enrolled to get my Florida agent license. 

Do I look to partner with other lenders?

With hard-money, lenders will finance 75-80% of purchase with 90-100% rehab costs, so it is doable with <50k assets.Creative financing is also a great way to get started.

Use their resources (lenders/HM) to get ahead and then find your first property, if you need more cash,... flip it, don't long hold it... and when you get established start holding some properties. 

That doesn’t make sense to me, but most of my real estate is in Arizona so I don’t have many bank/lender contacts in California.