Enjoy these rates.

If you want passive just invest in VNQ and withdraw x% in addition to the dividend vs getting pure distributions from a private reit, much safer. 

This analysis is purely for educational purposes and is for a course capstone project.Any thoughts/feedback would be super helpful.

Once you have grown to the point where you are beyond house hacking and are purchasing for pure investment, not a place to live, then you can really start using the LLC or other strategies.   

Then buy out my partners on my Costa Rica properties, and just host retreats in Costa Rica, visit my cabins, collect cash flow, and enjoy my wife and kids and travel around visiting friends in my awesome motorhome which I have not purchased yet. great goals.. mine is to buy a nice drift boat and flyfish all over the west and up into BC. trying to figure out do I buy a summer cabin say in Western Montana or Eastern Idado as a home base..

Enjoy those grandkids!

You also have expenses that are $10,000/month, you have $0 left to invest, donate, enjoy (not good).

Since relocating here, I've enjoyed expanding our own portfolio while also offering services to OOS investors looking to invest in Indiana.

Since you've stayed there and the lot is open, I see the lure, but any time I see something like this - "This is a pure emotional type of investment and I want to honor it."

I love my job and have enjoyed being a nurse for over 15 years.