We also plan on setting up a trust next year to further protect ourselves and have it own all of our entities.But from all of this, I am leaning more towards the S-Corp... or I guess an LLC with S-Corp election.  

Your company gets sued, takes bankruptcy, has tax issues and who knows if you have others involved in your company 2 months later, you're also changing estate settlement matters, especially with partners and most don't spend 5k on setting up their estate with business concerns, so what's the bank to do?

This should drive the demand for housing up, and perhaps rentals even more as a lot of their employees are on set projects.  

I am in contract to purchase an small investment property in Staten Island NY, I want to hear some thoughts on setting up the LLC before or afterwards ...I like to say thank you in advance, for your time and response ....

Conduit (CMBS) - Conduit went away for a bit during the COVID onset, but they are back lending again.

To be honest, my lady wears the tool belt in the relationship and I'm just hired muscle, but I'm very confident in her vision, skills and execution, and I think there's very little that we wouldn't be able to tackle in terms of fixing up our first property.

If you can get them to use online from the onset it's much better.

Looking for advice on putting together a bulletproof lease agreement I can find basic cookie cutter leases and I know I can go to an attorney and have them write me one up but I want some perspective on setting myself up to prevent as many unforseen issues as possible.

Often by the time we muscle thru all the paper work the deal falls apart.

Congratulations on setting a goal and having a plan.