In our 'day job' business of remodeling we have stayed just a partnership with an LLC.

All stakeholders were satisfied and no appeals were filed.

Job, family, retirement, location, world, moving,  etc3.  

It's good practice in making the calculations needed to decide whether or not to pull the trigger on a potential deal.You soon learn that starting off as a Doctor is less advantageous than starting off as a Janitor, because the game presets your income and expenses based on the job title.

I also reccomend lining up a contractro early, realy early, from what I’ve heard, so you can keep everything on schedule and budget.So now that you’ve tackled what most investors would call a major job, do you see yourself repeating a similar strategy.. or do you feel like branching out into something else?

On top of that you have idiots who engage in bid wars and pay retail for a house that has never been inspected (and those are the bidders who will cry foul when they discover totally trashed and destroyed house that will require a full gut job to rehab). 

There is no doubt my best return would be to flip after rehab, but then I have a job as a flipper.

We don’t plan to leave jobs and live off of the portfolio but have it as a wealth generator aka hedge against future risks

It's your job as a landlord to respond to these things in a professional manner. 

.: It sounds like you have a great system down, and I am sure that you can find some handymen that are in the area doing part-time work and then working at a day job that could be pushed into full-time work on your properties.