This has been extremely important because the competition for REOs has been fierce, and because it generally takes many offers to get one accepted.It's worked out quite well, but I'd like to begin exploring private money (read: friends/family) in order to scale my business.I have a couple concerns, however.I'm concerned that a line of credit from a private money lender wouldn't be considered a "cash offer". 

Save the LLCs for segregating investors or for joint ventures where a business structure is needed.Brian has my vote for best post of 2016 here on outlining how the duty to defend, which you get from your insurance not your llc, is often key ( and I like a landlords policy with all bells and whistles plus an umbrella, as I have just few residential as small scale landlord with only  1-4 unit property) .. the cost of the defense now may eclipse the liability in some cases and is present even if you prevail..so insure properly whatever you decide for an entity......Other cons, you may also lose the ability to represent yourself in an eviction and have challenges in financing and refinancing as mentioned  ( and I won't get to due on sale here but search that on BP for more discussion there)...

That being said, I'm now looking to house hack a 2-4 unit property because that will give me better scale and I'll be able to live rent free rather than sinking thousands into some SF landlord apt owners pocket each month.

It remains to be seen whether this will take off or not, but there is a major $1bn state of the art processing chip manufacturing facility that was completed in the last 3 years or so up there, and SUNY Albany is pouring resources into nano tech.  

In addition to the BP podcast, I also like Justin William's House Flipping HQ (he's all about systems and scaling and goes into details with his guests) & the Real Estate Guys (more macro and across different disciplines of investing).On the non-REI side, I loved Serial (can't WAIT for season 2), Sword & Scale, How Stuff Works (learn SOOO much), Throwing Shade (so funny), some NPR and running podcasts (to stay motivated and keep learning!). 

Biggest issue is that the manufactured homes will now be 10 years older.  

We're RE Brokers, general & manufactured home contractors, developers, interior designers, investors and property managers in the North County Coastal area.

It's not scalable unless you are also scaling your AGI.

We developed the relationship with the modular home companies during the downturn in hopes of expanding our offerings and ended up building 3 homes with one manufacturer and 1 with another, we found there to be limited demand for the product in our area and minimal cost savings over similar stick built products.  

Hi everyone, I'm a begining investor, starting to build a wholesale business (1-2 / month) to begin generating cash flow and build capital, then scale up from there, possibly moving into flipping a/or buy and hold rental properties once I have some reserve capital.