Most of these groups are on facebook and have monthly meetings:Tennesse Valley REIA (Free Monthly meeting held at Newks at University)Madison County REIANorth Alabama REIA

If he held the loan you both prosper and use your strengths (you managing and his capital ability). 

In that timeframe, I'm also aiming to get something that is north of 4 units and from I'm told, this would need to be be held by a separate LLC since it would be considered 'commercial'. 

For every two-story building we own we take the carpets off the stairs, fill the cracks with painters caulk, paint the stairs a dark brown semi-gloss, put linoleum on top of the stair tread and we install a non-slip metal stair molding (or whatever you call it.

Note that for early grounded outlets, sometimes the ground wire was split out of the cable outside of the box, and then wrapped around one of the nails or screws that held the box to the stud.

If you have the property in your LLC, your risk is limited to the assets held in that LLC (that specific 4plex, and any other assets held in that LLC).

They sign off on the work and pay the contractor the $10k that was held in escrow for the repairs.

Communication with our contractor held us up, as well as weather.

(can be held at the title company or the real estate brokerage) Then you "open title" by sending the contract to the title company (some states have realty attorneys that do some of this, I'm not sure the details for those states) When title is opened the title company doe a preliminary title report, meaning they're searching the title for all the liens and easements and restrictions, etc, and tell you what they're insuring (up to the purchase price) and what they are not.If you are doing inspections and other due diligence, appraisal, well/septic, as-built, all that gets done in the mean time, if there's a deal breaker in your due diligence period you would get your earnest money back (check with your Realtor... if you're new at this and don't have one, get a Realtor)The remaining funds for the property come when the deal closes, this would be the cash from the buyer or a lender.

Let’s say I do a 90% LTV cash out refi on a property held by my LLC.