To my benefit though, I have a feeling that multiple offers drove the price up, but some of those people may have been using financing and this particular home probably wouldn't even appraise at asking.I guess the most ambiguous but accurate response would be: it depends!

Why would a seller take a low ball offer from investors when they are getting above asking and multiple offers within days from buyers.

With multiple people involved you definitely want to set up some separate entity but not necessarily an LLC.

I hope to drop personal guarantees in the future.My suggestion is talk to the lenders , more than one. and ask them what is their requirement's. you might be able to buy multiples with your money. 

LLC bank account, and things go from there.Also, if you are paying them interest etc, it is best to do this on a quarterly or better, yearly payment, due to cost and hassles involved in multiple small international transfers - more cost effective in one big lump.Hope this helps....

One other way of doing this is to send the property information to multiple commercial agents. 

The foreign investors have to perform a ton of due diligence from afar and go through multiple hurdles to buy.

I've spoke to 2 of them today, both own multiple houses with a lot of equity.  

What am I looking for in multiple housing?

Multiple pulls in a 2 week time period is usually counted as one pull as the algorithms know you are rate shopping.If you get pulls going on a few months each time you try to locate a property to buy then it can affect your score.If you know your score is high say above 740 middle score then you typically qualify for the best rates anyway and do not need credit pulled in the beginning.No legal advice given.