The Finances:I'm looking to obtain $$ from a friend.

Universities offer real estate investment/ development certificates and I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on the certificate from Fordham.

After 1 to 2 years obtain a cash out refinance and use that to purchase the next one. 

The websites US Tax Lien Association and the Tax Lien Certificate School, are these recommendable?  

If it's titled in the name of the LLC you will most likely have to obtain commercial auto insurance which is significantly more expensive than personal auto insurance.You didn't state how the LLC was taxed nor did you state what percentage of the auto is business vs personal use.If it is a mixed use vehicle, it is generally simpler to have the auto titled and insured in your name. 

so I finally got a job down here after a couple of weeks of waiting and now I can obtain a mortgage.

The IRS issues ITINs to individuals who are required to have a U.S. taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain, a Social Security number (SSN) from the Social Security Administration (SSA).The IRS issues ITINs regardless of immigration status, because both resident and nonresident aliens may have a U.S. filing or reporting requirement under the Internal Revenue Code.

One word of caution, don't take a first job that is oriented around construction or construction management, I have found it very hard for folks to move from construction to development without some loss of career traction to do so.For example, I come from a family of real estate developers, but I was ambitious to learn rapidly and work for others in the multi-family development domain, so I obtained my first job (asst. project manager) for a division of KB Home (Kaufman and Broad Multi-Housing) that developed in-house apartment projects.

Anyone taken one of the real estate investment analysis certificate courses that MIT and Harvard offer?

Where does one obtain insurance for self-owned/managed LLC's for property management service?