You could then essentially market those deals before you market them on the mls(even though you would eventually put it on the mls), still bringing your buyers "off market" deals.

Wrote the earnest money check, signed all the paperwork at my buyer's agent's office.

Obviously selling real estate would require A LOT of legality you have to learn, paperwork, shortcuts, etc. but do you guys think it would be a good idea for me to look into this?

Not sure they are still doing it as the market has changed a bit.It's my experience that pet rent also discourages multiple pets and essentially rules out those folks with a pack.

This essentially doubles the time to get a property back for a lease violation.

From my understanding an LLC would essentially create a corporate veil and restrict my taxation to up to 35%.

They make their money on these fees and rarely ever fund a loan.2) you sent an ill advised "up front" fee to a lender that does actually lend, but the type of loan you wanted is not available to LLC's (conventional loan) or your LLC doesn't qualify, or as mentioned the LLC doesn't own the property.Legitimate lenders don't have an up front fee just for "starting the paper work".3) you paid for an appraisal and maybe title work, before they found out you/your LLC doesn't qualify or they don't lend to LLC's (conventional loan).

If you are talking about taking an investor loan to purchase the property and then later moving into it, I think you are taking some chances.Investor loans do not require all the paperwork required by the Dodd-Frank rules on homeowner loans.  

It is a hassle for them to take you to court...a lot of paperwork.  

I've made a decent living over my brief investing career in Austin, but I've warned many out of state investors to the same thing that @Jay Hinrichs mentioned, which is that we have no state income tax here, which means that our property taxes are astronomical to make up for it.If you live here, it's immaterial, but if you live in a state with income tax, you're essentially getting taxed twice (and yes, I'm aware of (some) of the complexities of cross-state earnings and how they're taxed).