@Ardian Selimi - others may disagree but I think ground up construction for your first deal is taking on an unnecessary amount of risk. 

Underwriting this deal with a rehab that involves adding a unit might be unnecessary.

Good Luck to you Robert, growing up in the South, i've seen Gay folk suffer an exorbitant amount of unfair and unnecessary discrimination.

While burdensome (and unnecessary most of the time), having each property in its own LLC would provide the greatest protection for your personal and other business assets.

This way, you may learn the ropes and obtain practical experience without taking unnecessary risks.Examine many approaches to real estate investing, including wholesaling, home hacking, BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat), and long-term rentals.

That being said, it's important to be cautious of known brand/marketers mostly; oftentimes, they come with a lot of unnecessary overhead and just white-label their services out to other CPAs.

Find the strength to say not to unnecessary expense to yourself, friends, significant other for a few years to start building your wealth.

Not having either leaves you, the tenant and the owner of the condo open to unnecessary risk. 

On multiple occasions he had us wasting our time looking up unnecessary tax forms online because he wasn’t well versed in tax code.

The same logic goes for the LTR insurance with adding premiums (which is really what Sthe STR insurance model is)Most STR insurance is exactly the same thing as LTR with tons of premiums added for unnecessary reasons like no one will ever use.