Prioritize your financial stability.

Trade some comfort for financial stability.Part of attaining financial success is being simultaneously optimistic and paranoid. 

In fact, out of 15+ deals I've submitted NONE have been purchased by Mentor Financial Group.

While both involve finding and properly securing a site and bringing it to full entitlement, the ground-up process includes the land piece but gets way more involved and complex to execute.The full "Monty" for ground-up development needs to include financial literacy, an explanation of metrics, and how they work.

I know, sorta defeats the purpose of an LLC from a financial perspective, but gets the job done.

It wasn't just a financial decision, I'm passionate about RE and way over my previous career in aviation.

Because it's my money, I care more (I get 92% of the revenue, PM only 8%, and PM team member near 0%), I only had my units to manage (PM team member has other owners and units), and, with humility, I am smarter and harder working than the team members assigned to my portfolio (3rd party PM has to hire at a level that makes the business model financially work for them). 

Sounds like you are in a pretty strong financial position.

How long it takes to be financially ready is different for everyone.

If you have not yet, try building your financial model with this in mind.