I'd personally wouldn't refi it.

Should I use online services like LegalZoom? 

I am a handy person who would be able to perform much of the home renovation myself.

These professionals can provide expert guidance, conduct a thorough assessment of your property's valuation, and represent you in negotiations or appeals with the assessor's office or assessment appeals board.Attend Assessment Hearings: If your jurisdiction offers assessment appeal hearings, attend these hearings to present your case in person.

Each person further down the line hoping they can scam their way in to get paid, and actually having zero idea who the actual contract holder is or who the seller is. 

You will also gain valuable experience that you can leverage for other opportunities.Speaking from personal experience, I have several STR rentals in California (I co-own STRental Pros in Orange County, Los Angeles County, and Riverside County).

You'd have to find a person familiar with MN tax laws to address how the CA-sourced income would be taxed on the MN returns.As to the LLP/LLC question, LLPs require a general partner, which usually has unlimited liability. 

I actually had to get enough units where I could offer tenants multiple housing options when I purchased properties rented at way under market rates and then (an embarassing number of times) personally watch tenants that would "suffer" from a rent increase turn down smaller (but nicer places) or  nicer places in a less prestigious zip code (sometimes only minutes away) before I realized that I was hampering my ability to earn a living in order to subsidize the lifestyle choices made by a some random stranger that happened to live in a property I bought.

Ideally, my buyers are fully employed and financially liquid foreigners - be it from the US, the UK, central and northern Europe - either a single person or a couple with 0-1 kids, looking to live there right now, rent it out as an investment and then sell it, or use it as a future base for retirement.

The broker shall acknowledge receipt of the earnest money shown on line 28 to the escrow agent who shall credit that amount to the BUYER’S escrow account.