The place to start is a local office of title insurance company who can advise you what they will require and may even have names experienced probate attorneys in your area.

I'm doing lots of leg work today with the town zoning and planning commisions office to learn more about past inquires of the land.  

The cheapest way, but not easiest is to go to the county's recorder office and do your own research.  

I was able to get the list from the assessment office.  

County Assessors office is online and gives tax mailing addresses for free.

Hey @Drew Clements I was self employed when I started on my last round of investing, I had my own law office. 

You need to call the assessors office and building and permits to dig for info.If the 3 plex is grandfathered in or was never allowed to begin with then you can't buy based on the seller shown cash flow model because if you will not be allowed to do that you will not make that gross income for rents.You need to see if it is even allowed and then if it was remodeled is it up to code and permitted??

I am interested in commercial real estate primarily and multifamily properties secondary, so my model will be to target on the residential side 2 - 4 family properties and on the commercial 4 unit + apartments, office and retail spaces.

So as registered agents, these are Businesses that Incorp Services, Inc. represents.In several dozen random views of filings for companies represented by Incorp, several "foreign" (meaning out of state) LLC formations do not list officers.

I have a fictitious business name registered in my County Clerk's office, such as "abc realty", that name is on everything.