They're basically two different skill sets and it's fallacious thinking to assume you can do one because you can do the other.

I am using RentRedi property management for my two single family rentals.

Two best options are house hack or sell and acquire a 1031 property.

Also note that my company will possibly either cover closing costs if we sell or provide property management for two years if we rent.

There’s two components of household:1) the “who”2) the “how”“Who” is living together is easy: that’s the tenants.

or needs to be in two places across the state from one another?

As a company, the first two years when making a profit the company tax is 15% and from the third year onwards this becomes 25%. 

You have to separate the two.

The two of you would need to sit down with an attorney together and have a partnership agreement drawn up.

If you manage to get this off the ground and do some verified - meaning paperwork is in your name, or company's name, etc - projects that turn a profit, and you build some capital in a bank, you should be able to go right to that lender after a year or two and start a relationship no problem.