Unless you already have an established relationship with a person, I think you have to be very careful how you go about this so as not to seem like all you are interested in is getting something for little or nothing.  

In hindsight I should have established a relationship with a smaller more flexible bank long ago. 

I've established a track record of rehabing properties, and I have a solid working relationship with a local bank.

I’m guessing you’re referring to pricing of notes and how one goes about establishing a value for the paper.

You could request copies of cancelled checks for the past 12 months to establish the applicants' rental historyAsk for a verification of rent, or VOR, a form completed by your landlord and it is used by lenders to determine an applicants' overall creditworthiness and it can be used for screening applicants' rental payment history.Check out whether the landlord is real by checking the owner of record in the county tax records.Check out the previous address and when the rental property sold. 

Inspection periods are short so you should be establishing relationships with inspectors and/or GCs now, so they are ready to go at a moments notice once you have a property under contract. 

My plan is to aggressively pay it off then the ‘brand new’ LLC will have two years of tax returns, an asset to its name, an established book.

You just need to establish a proper system to track everything for the rental property so it will be easier comes tax season and also if in case you wanted to analyze how your property is performing. 

It can be pretty flexible depending on how you establish the entity.I lean toward Texas LLCs for their low annual costs and maintenance requirements, but there are several great options.

I have established one funnel so far and it has allowed us to have 635 leads with phone numbers, 97 replies, 13 house visits, 2 contracts and 5 other bids in the first 35 days.