Will Glaeser Lenders want to have your income (tax return, pay stubs, w2), credit, experience, bank account, LLC operating agreement, purchase agreement, scope of work, market comps, property evaluation, exit strategy.

If she went to Assisted Living - I can help you but it's only KS Specific - each state is different but I'm guessing some of the guidelines carry across states in regards to how she will pay for the ALF and eligibility for Medicaid and Home and Community Based Services (which is a medicaid program that would help pay for ALF)Anyways in KS - in for someone to qualify for HCBS/Medicaid to help pay for their care either in the  home or assisted living - you need to have less than $2k in assets - and consistently less than $2k in the bank - there is also something called a 5 year lookback period - I do not 100% understand how the lookback period works but will soon enough.So - as far as the assets are concerned - if your friends mother has the house and any savings there is no way the govt will be paying for most of her stay in ALF - and I also think it would be difficult to house her in an ALF facility for $3k per month - can be done but tough - Due to no estate planning the family needs to decide on what they are going to do - they will either need to sell the house now and just pay her money down at the private pay rate in a facility until she "runs out of money" then apply for Medicaid and go from there or see if the strategy of renting the house with her present income will be enough to cover the facility she's staying at.Individually the systems are simple however there are so many moving parts to Medicaid HCBS I've discovered in my time as owner of a facility I can 100% understand the families frustrations. 

We thought a simple transfer of the down payment to me or the business would work but it appears it would incur a gift tax.

Start setting up appointments and put houses under contract (this can be a simple one page contract that shows who's buying, who's selling, the address, the amount, any other terms, and signatures.

This house makes money not as a simple flip, but needs a full gut, and probably a second floor addition.

Specifics such as do you all setup an LLC between each other, simple partnership paperwork, etc. and if you go for funding is it easy to apply with 3 or 4 people on it ?

I would say the process is pretty simple, but not necessarily easy.

Simple Steps to Protest your taxes. 1.

The second recommendation would be to do a house flip with a special and your able to move there and be a "house hacker" and take advantage of the lower down payment.The only other way away from home is to buy an apartment complex that had a minimum of 30 units so that project could afford property management company from that local area, they need to be experienced and understand what you expect in reporting and current operation with phone talking. 

Any good bobcat operator could easily remove that severely cracked up driveway with minimal root destruction .