Also, are you using a general contractor to run your flips or doing them yourself?

There's pockets all over the greater Tampa Bay Area that are B class and up but balancing that with a decent cap rate is going to be tricky unless you either have low cap rate expectations or are will to do value add to the property or being more creative such as using a short or midterm rental strategy or even room by room with padsplit.2) Verify as well the 1031 is going to allow "like for like" into a single family. 

Strategies to improve your occupancy rate include optimizing your pricing, targeting the right guest demographics, upgrading amenities based on market demand, gathering positive reviews, etc.The DataSo for our analysis, we've peeked into the data here in Austin, TX using a leading short-term rental (STR) data and analytics provider called AirDNA.

Again, this can be avoided if using a holding LLC as discussed previously.  

We’ve researched using a HML, but aren’t sure which would be smarter and have less impact on us financially as a newly-married couple, since personally, I wouldn’t be taking any risk or contributing to the purchase.

Also why are you using a realtor, they do not have the deals ? 

Using a HELOC for a down payment on your first investment property can indeed increase leverage, potentially impacting your financial stability.

If you post a job, the first respondents are usually ones using an AI tool to respond to your posting and they are using a scattershot approach hoping to find someone who will take the bait.

Here is my situation:I open an LLC for each of my investment properties and for each LLC I need a bank account.I do not want to go down the route of using a traditional bank and open a new bank account with say Wells Fargo unless I have to.I have tried baseline banking which allows you to open one "account" and have multiple accounts within that (one for each LLC).

You can do this using a kind of recession proofing 1031 exchange - Sell properties that have profit and depreciation worth protecting.