If you have the chance to show that you are an intelligent solution creator only then will you find success.

Bare in mind what a contract fee is worth in the market of the Subject Property.  

Skin in the game, eg a very large down payment.At your age, the best chance would be a private loan from the people you know you best. 

@Stephen Lofthus The links provided by @J Scott are great tools so if you have not had a chance, check those articles out.It comes down to what return you are looking for.

Done both ways, it seems to me that it would give folks with the really busy schedules a chance to just chime in real time and discuss things whenever they did have time.

I've heard about the cash flow game so many times, and skipped a few invitations to play while I was buying/rehabbing/leasing up cash flow properties, so haven't had a chance to play yet lol But looking forward to it after I'm finished with rehab and leasing on the 4plex I bought last month.. 

Hire the person or persons, let them know what you expect, then give them a chance.

I will say that in most instances it makes more sense (unless you really want to get rid of one tenant or the remaining tenant absolutely refuses to extend the lease with vacating tenant's name still on it) to simply extend the lease, because you have two (or more) people to go after which increases your chances of recovering your money.  

So there is not a ton of benefit to be gained by an LLC and that is before factoring everything that is required to have a properly maintained LLC that can have a chance at protecting you and not getting pierced and thus worthless anyway.Don't get me wrong.  

Bare in mind, even if debt is from the same creditor, the line is still closed and reopened, so there is no boost to credit for using the same creditor.It is impossible for anyone to really give too much more insight without looking at the credit report itself.