Eventually, Class A property values increased to the point that even increasing rents didn't allow them to cashflow upon purchase.So, the flood of new investors switched to buying Class B properties.

I've seen folks create their own management company to convert the Schedule E income to Schedule C (or w-2 if it's an S-Corp), but how does being an agent help with that? 

So i found a house that has tall ish grass and a broken/open window with no mailbox at the location and i was to buy this property for my first house to live in for a while then eventually sell.

I did eventually form an LLC with my investor colleague referenced in my bridge loan query.

My husband has 100k in a sep IRA that we could convert. 

You get diversity as well as you can see what people do right and wrong and learn more as you eventually also have more money. 

Aggressive debt is an investment death sentence (eventually). 

There are 30 year fixed rates or 40 year fixed terms with 10 years interest only before converting to a 30 year fixed.

It’s worth about $2.5m and I still have to finish the yard and would like to eventually build an ADU.  

My plan was to "self-perform" a land contract by filling out a purchase and sales agreement for a land contract that specifies I will take over the mortgage payments, get authorized on their mortgage, and be authorized essentially to fix up the property and eventually sell it on the MLS since the land contract will give me that control/equitable interest.