Basically they do real estate photos, drone aerial videos, high quality virtual staging, 3d tours, augmented reality of the homes for sale, and free brochure creation that the realtors can customize themselves and have ready almost immediately.

Add in maintenance and creation of these trusts, it all seems a bit over the top to me with liability that could be covered by an insurance policy instead of complexity.

Was asked by a person to look at two different Self Storage properties about 2 hours away from them as their first time investment.  Wasn't to excited, since I would prefer they look close to their home, so they could...

This can definitely be a good strategy for wealth creation.

And, what we saw coming out of the last recession over time was the eventual creation of a lot of jobs, but 40-50% were very low-wage jobs.  

You could complete that work and then refinance the property if there's significant value-creation (and market appreciation) from where you bought the property.

The Collateralincludes the following property that Borrower now owns or shall acquire or create immediately upon theacquisition or creation thereof: all tangible and intangible personal property, including, but not limited to: (a)inventory, (b) equipment, (c) instruments, including promissory notes (d) chattel paper, including tangiblechattel paper and electronic chattel paper, (e) documents, (f) letter of credit rights, (g) accounts, includinghealth-care insurance receivables and credit card receivables, (h) deposit accounts, (i) commercial tort claims, (j)general intangibles, including payment intangibles and software and (k) as-extracted collateral as such termsmay from time to time be defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.

And since we communicate with the IRS through out filings (deeds and LLC and corporate registrations are state creations) it is the tax return that reports the activity of the property that is the taxpayer for the property for 1031 purposes.If you and your wife file a joint tax return then each of you and both of you are the same taxpayer. 

Ie lead funnels and management, offer opportunities, assignment of contracts, deal creation and buyer communication.

As others have mentioned, having multiple streams of income is the true path to wealth creation.