I work full time too as a National Account Manager for a distribution company, but looking to replace my income and work on Real Estate investing full time.

I don't mind my job, but eventually, I'd like to be free of the corporate life and do my own thing - I've heard real estate is a good place to start!

With offices in Birmingham, Montgomery, Pell City, Auburn, and Alexander City, Aliant provides the feel and personal service of a hometown lender, but with national-level capabilities.

And you can even pick the ncaa national champion in the comments...most importantly, you may or may not know, chad is a BP member and you can even message him ( he is in the comments on the  aforementioned interview, too).

And where I am isn't half bad-- I don't work 9-5, I work whenever I want, I don't deal with a single headache on any of my properties (only occasionally with my PM), I was able to get extremely creative on financing, I walked out of my corporate America job, and now I live on the beach and sleep in whenever I want.

That will determine the actual elevation of the house and will likely get a better rate than the neighborhood rate (not always).Second, they recently changed the national flood insurance so that you can change your deductible as @Perry Ivy stated.  

- Is it easier to create a corporation (LLC) if my plan is to acquire multiple properties in the future ?

As far as recommending a particular institution, outside of your local institutions there are all kinds of national lenders, it takes about 30 seconds to find a raft load of them on Google. 

Im wondering if corporate holdings are like personal holdings, where if you hold a property a year you avoid the short term taxation.

Note also that self-employment income (if she's the owner) is scrutinized more carefully than corporate W-2 income, so be prepared for tighter requirements from lenders.