This piece will also help you determine what you can afford and cash flow. 

I think my partner and I may be exploring a complicated solution - glad to hear that it sounds like one exists!

Ohio, across the board, is affordable, has good rental scale per price, and favors landlords.

My tip would be to buy properties in desirable vs "affordable" areas.

Should I assume the in-place IHDA loan at acquisition or close with a conventional loan and try to get IHDA loans/grants/credits later if/when I decide to keep affordable?  

Knowing that someone who can afford a $500k house, can often also afford a $600k or even $700k, house, and will want more of everything (better location, bigger house, better finishes, etc).As for number 1, not even just paying it all up front, but working with any contractor that wants "percentage" draws.  1/3 up front, 1/3 half way done, 1/3 at completion.  

(Couldn’t really afford the place, didn’t have good enough credit to be worried about an eviction, etc etc..)2) They should have posted a 5-7-10 (depending on local laws) to “pay or quit” as soon as the ent was late and started eviction.

A beautiful, redeveloped apartment complex that is affordable to the community with A+ finishes

I’ve used all of those SMS platforms, but have found the most success with Smarter Contact because it is the only one that has allowed us to scale our texting volume over 20k texts/mo while still being in compliance.REIreply and REIrail are Go High Level white-labeled solutions.

Setting up the LLC in Ohio was affordable so if we decided to go forward with a BRRRR we could always open another LLC for that too.