For rents to increase faster than inflation, there must be significant and sustained population growth.Sufficient income to replace your current income: This will require multiple properties.

Quote from @Peaches Jones: You've asked this same question in multiple places.

If you are focused on getting multiple assets at once, consider this:1. you really don't have enough available capital to do this safely right now and you will buy cash flow properties with cap ex which you will need reserves for2. you need $15-20k in reserves for each property you buy so factor that in3. when you try to buy multiple properties to start, you end up missing the mark on your first one because you are collecting and not curating your portfolio

Doing anything at scale would likely take an act of congress, decades of litigation and environmental reviews, multiple huge overlapping federal bureaucracies working together, not to mention much of the available federal land is not useful for building housing on as it's in remote areas far from jobs with no water and sewer access, roads or infrastructure... so easier said than done. 

I've had multiple partnerships in my career.

Meet the players. 

If you own multiple properties, you can elect to group them together as a single activity for tax purposes, known as a "grouping election.”

Quote from @Chris Seveney: Quote from @Gino Barbaro: @Chris SeveneyI've interviewed both, multiple times over the years.

Get quotes from multiple contractors to know exactly what it will take to get the project back on track.

multiple steps or extra LLCs are ok.