I have rented to great tenants for years that had a little pet and had excellent credit.

@Jeffrey Masessa he gave you an excellent book to read because it will help you understand what the basics of investing are.

- Also who should I focus on building a strong relationship with.

This allows you to build a relationship with them. 

For the past two years, since beginning this journey, I have consumed every podcast and been absorbed in the forums; I’ve saved nearly every dollar I can and put that towards real estate deals; I’ve pushed my contractor hard, paid him well, but pushed him hard; run my business determined; thought about real estate every day; creatively strategized my next move daily; put relationships on the backburner; and paid myself first.

Interacting face to face will help tremendously with forming those critical relationships to aid your progress.

It all depend what each LLC is doing.If LLC B owns property in State  and receive rent in state B, it only needs to be registered in state B.If LLC A is just a holding, not doing business in state B, but just owning LLC B, it does not have to be registered in state B.The concept of using a holding LLC is multiple.First as you described, if state B does not give you anonymity, you can get the anonymity of state A by having LLC A listed as sole member of LLC B.Also, and it is probably the most important point, if state B does not have good charging order protection for their LLC, you can get the excellent charging order protection of state A protecting your LLC B for outside liability.Delaware and Wyoming are two very good state to get your holding LLC in.

I am in the same boat you are and have been connecting with people on BP over the last several months in order to learn and see what relationships grow organically. 

This was a deal that took no money out of my pocket whatsoever, BUT I had the relationship with both the partner and the private lender from previous deals.

So excellent that many top corporations put all their managers through the training.