Cost of work to date on site plus the design and permitting fees likely exceeds $75k at this point of the process.

After I've familiarized myself with all of that I am going to begin looking at multi-family units throughout Central Wisconsin, as well as the Twin Cities area.While in the Navy I have developed a small Web Design business on the side.

A step further would be to enlist an architect or design professional to put together a feasibility study.  

$1300 does seem like a lot but the perks you list, if they are of value to you then it paid for itself.I asked about Florida LLC and was told doing it myself would be $125 give or take.Have you tried looking at a Nevada web site dealing in business entities like their gov site?

It wasn't designed to be a big money maker.

Also if there is 3 separate people that are close together, it would probably be easiest to designate the primary contact of the group which you’ll relay information, communicate back and forth regarding property details such as payments, notices, etc.

I am writing this to encourage everyone to please use the web to check out a person or company before signing up. 

Typically a well designed mailer will get 2% response.

At purchase, it had cables in a nightmare of a web with chains of connections from the basement through the first floor and dropping down from the attic.

An area where design has value.