Also, if you sell homes regularly each year, whether it's a few or more and you can show the bank that that is your business model and if you can show the bank consistency in that model, they can use your capital gains as regular income which can greatly help you qualify for a loan.4.

What do contractors typically charge to come out to a potential property and walk through and fill out a SOW with pricing?    

I would imagine the LLC will have its own EIN, but we will still report the gain/loss as pass-through income on our joint tax return.

What is the typical guest avatar in the area?

Building a portfolio allows you to gain experience, develop systems, develop your own approach to managing properties etc.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

If I do, I need to sell it by July 2026 in order to not have cap gains.

What would you save in captial gains on the $360k if you sold now?

There are alternative programs out there with reduced cost, but you are typically looking at 20% down. 

Typically corporate/bank owned homes are managed by an asset management company.