And I have a friend that is informing me of the next meetup he goes to so I will try my best to meet others and gather what I can learn from their experience.To answer your first question its a residential portfolio of single family, duplexes, a few triplexes and two quads.

You don't want to start a relationship to learn about storage units and then find out they only invest in single-family homes.3.

My wife and I bought our first STR in April (Smokies) and it's going well but we realize we want to start focusing on single or multi-family.

the first property I purchased was in Cleveland back in 2005 a single family that I purchased for  22k cash and i rehabbed it after work and on weekends this property was in the hood I put 12k in it put a tenant in and sold it for 79k to investor who an real estate agent referred me. 

On a single family even as someone who has been in construction for 25+ years it’s not something I would want tot take the risk on.Other things to do is increase your offer but by doing so, is that the best investment?

So there is no single projected return, no single actual return, no single experience (and it instead is a huge variety).I feel one of the main advantages of passive investments (via syndication/crowdfunding) is that I can hire a manager who has years more experience than I can ever hope to obtain myself.

I won't be investing in the riskiest/most supportable asset subclasses such as hotels, and tilt my portfolio the ones that have historically been more stable such as multifamily and single-family housing.

... as I own my RE portfolio via my single member LLC is there a process that I can setup wherein the event of my death that LLC passes to my designated individual along with the assets owned by my LLC? 

Who is buying the single family homes that come to market?

The taxable gain on the sale of your single-family home (SFH) will generally be the **difference between the selling price and your adjusted basis in the property**.