The main benefits are doing ceilings and if you needed to paint a bunch of doors.

If it is not set up with systems and people in place to run it you will be mainly selling your book of business.

Getting less every month is still generally more cost effective than dealing with a tenant that stops paying or causes damages to the property.However, if you do decide to change your selection criteria and you are worried about fair housing, the main thing is documentation.

If you are doing this for accounting purposes, maybe look into some kind of software like Quick Books.

Therefore your main competitive advantage is price.

Higher end firms do that for liability purposes and to help eliminate construction conflicts because trades do not talk to each other.

Your LLC is the same as you for tax purposes, technically called a disregarded entity.

I might use the HELOC as an emergency fund knowing if I tap into it I now have to aggressively pay it down.Then main thing is you don't want to overleverage any property and if you use a second mortgage to buy a property, you are essentially 100% leveraged on that property.

I would not go with a brokerage whose main focus is SFR.

However, I have attempting to understand the full value of this for some time now having found myself investing in rental property with purpose and getting started educated on how I can make the money I invest work for me better.I read your post a few times, it all made sense, but I lose context on this paragraph, where you mention you take out the 80 +30k (this is invested for 30k as downpayment, and the 80k after the closing (of your own money))?