Also, were they letters with hand-typed font or corporate looking?

Then, the next question is what type of deals would you be excluded from even under a corporate entity?  

One of those thing to your fininacial well-being and that is to determine some type of corporation or a LLC.  

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guidelines do not allow you to close in a LLC or any corporate entity.  

You also need to do before you start is to form some type of corporation or a LLC.  

I guess I'm being very cautious because with my plumbing company being a corporation the rules are very strict.

My daughter is 4 and waiting for my Ca properties to provide enough cash flow to live would mean that she is kissing boys and drinking beer before I can escape corporate slavery!

As far as the networking...It was a hot day so I decided to get some oysters and while sitting at the bar, eating my dozen, I hear a gentlemen few seats over start talking about vacation rentals, corporate housing, and about the 30 day limit on vacation rentals in some cities.

I have a full time corporate gig with a couple decades of experience during which I have dabbled lightly on the side with landlording.

First explore if you can have your brother be the RMO of an LLC or Corp or even partnership, if you need it, there are some laws that your brother needs to be here when operating a job, however, just register his address as yours, after 4 years, you can inherit that license, just do a couple of side jobs within those 4 years, just take a business law exam by CSLB.