@Waylen Herdman What is your concern with obtaining a mortgage?

It was based on true asset protection both from inside the entity and from outside the entity.

If I were to obtain a contract I could wholesale or fix and flip. 

It's too small of a loan for the amount of overhead required to close the deal, especially to then stretch on the asset value.

There is a cost of entry to obtain your license.....school, exam, licensing, hanging with a broker, MLS fees, lockbox key fees, Realtor association fees, etc.However, the benefits are vast for investors as you get real time access to mls, and access to properties at your convenience with your lockbox key.  

Should I obtain a local lender/property manager?

I would then consider an umbrella policy on top of that if your assets justify it and maybe even if they don't.

I put my commercial assets in them, but too hard to get that awesome long term financing available to natural persons when you over-sophisticate them.

Opportunity Zones can be used to minimize tax payments or even reduce to zero.Opportunity Zones were created under the TCJA to; Allow U.S. investors to defer all 2018 capital gains for eight years if the profits are reinvested and held in an Opportunity ZoneLower the amount of capital gains taxes resulting from the sale of a capital asset by 10% or 15% if the proceeds therefrom are held for five or seven years, respectively, in an Opportunity Zone project.Provide for a full exemption from capital gains taxes on all future capital gains on the invested funds if an investment is held for ten years following investment.

Keep being persistent in obtaining your goals.