I have personally worked with @Wale Lawal and he is awesome. 

I personally have no connections with anyone who is involved in this niche and I'm wondering how other people have started their journey.

We make people take photos of themselves holding their ID and then I also meet them in person for the showing - at least for my units on the NW side of Chicago.I've never heard of these testers, but I am not surprised. 

My wife and I have overhauled our personal budget to reflect the 'pay yourself first' approach (allocate in order: income comes in -> invest -> donate -> fixed expenses -> variable expenses -> fun $$).We are looking to see what experienced people generally recommend for a holding tank for that 'invest' allocation while we target our first real estate deal.What financial vehicles have you guys used that works well for this?

A more realistic expectation is 24 hours which will ensure we can arrange any repairs or corrections with a team, handle it in person, etc. be curious how this plays out as I worked for local developer for a while and developed several properties in Alexandria (Specifically old town) and while the city is challenging like any city - they were mostly realistic.

In my personal experiences a lot of structural items start with bad drainage.

As a disabled person, I want to be in real estate, but I know I am limited. 

Congratulations on the duplex -My investor clients have acquired several multi-family investment properties locally in the market I operate in Northwest Indiana - Figure out your personal investment objective for the next 4 years and align yourself with the next property that make sense in this current market environment-

I heard that if you move the personal mortgages to an LLC they could get called and we would want to avoid that3.

Apparently, the person I am under contract with was managing the estate of the actual owner who recently died.