There is obviously a cost to this in both fees to set up, fees to parties acting on your behalf, opportunity costs in not being able to take advantage of some deals or move fast enough, inability to obtain financing- even owner carry back would be difficult to accomplish, and general hassle.

People may write how dumb it would be to cash out a paid off asset to re-amortize another asset carrying a 4% loan. 

And that $13k will be eaten up in loan fees and carrying costs by month 2.

I'd like to approach the agent with a seller carry offer.

The finances and everything is essentially carried out by my uncle.

Does anyone know of anyone who scrub deliquent tax lists?

The counter proposal I have in min is to have a structure inspection and ask the seller to carry a note 15K so that he has some skin in the game and not totally screw us up. 

If not, carry on.

One company owns everything and does nothing (this is your SLLC a/k/a “asset holding company”) and a completely separate company handles all of your operations (this is a traditional LLC a/k/a “operating company”) For the operating company which serves as your face to the world and through which you do all your business, you establish a Traditional LLC to carry out the operations of your investments.

Start making offers to homeowners who will carry back financing.