Work is important to who we are and how we were made."...blinded by working the wrong job or a job they hate."

We are closing on our first rental next week and have been looking for a CPA to help with the tax filing.  

Quote from @Garrett Brown: @Gabe Chase haha we are just the Spiderman meme now at this point!

We are new to property management and want to take advantage of learning and growth opportunities. 

Now here we are on the 10th of July and baselane still hasn't updated the phone number, I still don't have access to my funds, and they don't even have the decency to respond to my reply. 

They completed the review of the voucher on December 3rd AND REFUSED TO COVER THE TENANT'S RENT FOR NOVEMBER because they didn't have LMHA permission to move in.We had a home pass inspection on December 20th and still haven't received permission for the tenant to move in (January 3rd)...the tenant just had to pay for an additional month's rent at their old home and we are out another month without our rental occupied, incurring carrying costs, and risking vandalism.

I think the truth that your post brings is in the level of sophistication and market insights of the investors and investment sponsors that are prevalent on these forums, the amount of money we are talking about, and the general idea that real estate, even when directly owned, is passive in nature.

As we sell through these items should we create a bank account with the llc to "season" the capital for when we are ready to reach out to a lender when we are ready to make our first investment?  

Yes, we are currently doing spec builds in our market, for market sale.

We are already surrounded on three sides by urban zoned homes.My neighbors and I have been approached by two individuals, one is a neighbor who is a real estate agent, and the other one a friend of a neighbor, who works with a real estate attorney; both individuals asked us to join them in working with the 5-6 developers they have approached.