Additionally you can contribute 20-25% depending on the situation of what you pay yourself or the gp of the company which is commonly called profit sharing, which you don't have at your w-2 job and your w-2 job has no impact on this. 

The more common one I'm seeing is just pure speculation that the value will continue skyward in the future.

Remember to include the common area meter!

Quality and a flight to primo will remain the common theme in the solvent participants. 

That is pretty common here from my experience. 

Your approach of setting up separate LLCs for each property under a holding company is a common strategy to limit liability and protect the equity of each property individually.

I am curious how this process works, what rates/ terms are common?

A common mistake is investors see the low price/doors in the midwest and don't truly understand the location.

Is this common?

It looks like we are on opposite sides of the country, but we still have a bit in common.