Assuming you don't plan on going back into any consumer debt again I like your plan versus barely getting by.

It’s packed with great insights and worth checking out.Your plan to house hack and scale up is a solid move.

Make sure to plan for the added rental income/ordinary expenses on your tax return. 

I had hoped to offset it with my capital loss carryover and haven't planned for any expense documentation etc. can I make the case that I am not a dealer because this is my first time and also have a high w2 income relative to the LLC profit? 

What action are you planning to take to get started?

It will be a 3 or 4 unit and planning on doing STR on one as an experiment.

I want to create a strong marketing plan before taking that step to help me achieve my goal of earning $50k in commissions.I’m hoping this group can help me with a few questions:1.

That document will often show you when the plans were approved to build that development of X amount of homes.

We plan on living in the house and doing most of the fixes and renovations ourselves.

I think we are competitively priced, so most of out tenants have been renewing, but we plan to test higher rents in 2025  for our larger apartment buildings to account for the steep increase in insurance prices.There have been A LOT of new apartment buildings put up recently in the Cedar Rapids metro area, so depending on the class of tenant you have, maybe that could account for some of softening you are seeing?