Can you use the money and get a better return?

Now investors, especially the newbies, are chasing returns by going after higher risk investments - many NOT really understanding the true risks.Many more investors will be losing money and choosing to liquidate real estate - which will be buying opportunities for the better prepared investors.

Back to your question on maximizing rent: In general, the better the neighborhood the higher possible rent.

I can learn from this group and allows me to have a possibility to have a better future.

As it relates to lease end dates I've seen two things work here. 1) You can stagger end dates as mentioned above or 2) you can optimize for summer - this works better for us in areas where you see students or families with school age children moving to align with the summmer months.Separately, this is a great argument against month-to-month leases.  

Because of cost, duplexes are are a better choice and compete well with SFH and or apartments. 4.  

Consumer reports even has a report about how they're better than all the $300+ toilets.

From there, I would start to run numbers on those deals in that area/streets, and then start to connect with local agents/PMs to get an even better feel for pricing on homes along with rents for them. 

Is it better to get an LLC when I become a land lord to get some tax benefits?

Steve if you can go without buidling the extra garage below the ADU it will save a lot of money. if you can get two studios it will do much better than one ADU.