I would appreciate it you could also make an intro so I may evaluate them for our needs.

I really appreciate that you took the time to evaluate my plan🙂 

HOWEVER - if you're approaching it more so from the perspective of wanting a place to settle down and possibly later on emphasizing on school districts, your evaluation criteria will be different than someone who is a pure investment play. 

For example, software may run a report for an application, but it doesn't know how to actually evaluate the applicant and determine if they are a good fit for your rental.

That's like a company that does software development giving employees a bonus for referring other good programmers automatically makes the company a "scam". 

In addition, if you are self-employed with no full-time employees you may wish to consider opening a Solo 401k instead of a self-directed IRA as it has several advantages over an IRA LLCsuch as much higher contribution limits, direct checkbook control (i.e. no need to have the account at a speciality trust company), ability to take a 401k loan, exclusion from unrelated debt finance income tax with respect to investment in real estate acquired with non-recourse financing, etc.

My goal is to hopefully self manage until I can hire my own manager as an employee.

I managed three teams consisting of 3-4 employees each and led all their projects simultaneously, while overseeing accounting, marketing, and financial operations.

We evaluate the bills every 6 months to see if an increase is needed.

If you are using an owner-occupant loan you can NOT  close in an LLC.Second, if you are not going to use an owner-occupant loan, you just need to evaluate whether you have enough assets worth protecting!