The home buying process typically follows these key steps:Assess Your Finances: Review your credit score, savings, and determine how much you can afford for a down payment and monthly mortgage payments.Get Pre-Approved for a Loan: Work with a lender to get pre-approved, which gives you a clear budget and shows sellers you’re a serious buyer.Find a Real Estate Agent: Partner with an experienced agent who knows the local market and can guide you through the process.Search for Homes: Browse listings and visit properties that fit your criteria (location, size, price, etc.).Make an Offer: When you find a home you like, submit an offer through your agent, including contingencies (financing, inspections, etc.).Home Inspection & Appraisal: Once the offer is accepted, hire an inspector to ensure the home’s condition and the lender will order an appraisal to verify the property’s value.Secure Financing: Finalize your mortgage by submitting required documents and ensuring the lender clears you for closing.Closing: Sign the final paperwork, pay closing costs, and receive the keys to your new home!

In the process, you will be covering the tab for some nice family vacations  for whomever you hire to set up this structure.....My advice to anyone who wants to spend on anything beyond an LLC in the state in which they live or where the property is located should first be able to articulate the following:1.

I plan to do the trim flooring and painting myself and hire the rest out. 

But I did get some takeaways particularly in re: to hiring VAs (which I am now doing) and there were a few other tidbits about JVing that were helpful to learn.

If you are hiring a PI to check on tenants, you are looking at the wrong tenants.

They have been assigned to my LLC, Hunt Family Properties LLC.I do my own property management for those properties.Would it make a difference if I started a property management company and hired myself to manage my own properties?

Is there any service that does all the heavy lifting of skip tracing LLCs instead of hiring VAs to do it?

This is different if you own a 100 unit complex and need an onsite manager, you hire the person knowing they are hired as an employee and will have a place to stay while they are there..

We hired a management company, to help us with this, since we have no experience and we live in another state.

Quote from @Albert Blair: If you hire a locksmith to rekey, it will likely cost you more than changing out the locks yourself.