I would suggest house hacking first while soaking up as much information as possible.  

Thank you @Karen Barber I appreciate it and yes I know everyone will that's why I'm asking and soaking it all up.

Tell your investor to write the first check to the attny, and then seed the company account to get proper write offs.

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So you can buy there and spend it all on a down payment for one property OR you can buy outright or leverage that same amount of money to own many many properties in another part of the country, creating equity in those properties and making enough to easily pay that mortgage in SF AND having money left over as well.4) to give an analogy this sounds like - you are hungry and have one seed to plant at the moment.

Soak in as much information as you possibly can, and just continue to talk and ask questions.Find your local REIA and go to them.

Just mowing alone is not costly but the upkeep such as pruning, aeration, seeding, fertilizing can be.

In the meantime, go under "education" tab and soak in as much info as you can. 

Soaking all the knowledge we can and finding who we can to help with this decision.

I have my wife's uncle and a family friend who've indicated they'd be willing to provide input and help me get started, so I've been reaching out to them for the preliminary questions I have and I've also been reading and soaking up all I can on here.