I'm from the Southern, MI area and I am also building my real estate media business, Elicit Real Estate Media Co. 

You can use a bank statement program, (1 year 1099) and depending on your schedule E or how you show your passive income or Schedule C depending on business tenure you can use just one.  

While I continue growing my land business, my next focus is investing in Memphis real estate using the BRRRR strategy.I’m here to connect with contractors, lenders, wholesalers, and fellow investors who are active in Memphis.

The house sits near a freeway junction and a busy street, and while my previous rental was also close to the freeway, something about this home's elevation makes the noise unbearablyintrusive.

Lenders or investors who have short lock up periods but have years of experience feeding their business with new capital would give me more comfort but anyone who is just starting and is promising a rate of return or return of capital in a set period of time would be alarming because they very well could be reliant on fresh capital to make good on that promise and that usually ends poorly.

you might also have-local registration fee or business license or similar-shared utilities that the owner is responsible for

However, my portfolio is mostly B2B and the businesses I work with are comfortable paying the nonrefundable fee plus the refundable security deposit. 

I worked as a firefighter so I got the building construction from that background and then the transaction and numbers I got with working within/alongside investors that were in the business doing the stuff I wanted to do.

Quote from @Caleb Brown: I would focus on being an agent first and building that business.

Either you learn to be good at it, or partner(your business partner, not someone who works on commission/salary/fees) with someone who is good at it.