Good opportunities, early stage opportunities, may not have the best online presence, but be otherwise legitimate.Also IRR is a vanity metric, it's the wrong measurement.

Or in the early stages ask for more detailed financials for the last rolling 12 months, and come back with that data early in the process to weed out those who won't budge?

I’m also at a life stage, where I’d prefer to just live with my partner and not rent out individual rooms in my unit.When I move out, the rental income would sometimes just barely cover the mortgage and taxes (usually not even insurance).

I've come to realize that opting for a Delaware LLC might be unnecessary at this stage; it seems more fitting for the future when my portfolio experiences significant growth.

As little as you can move money around, try to get to a place where you are just paying yourself out and adding owner contributions into the business (but at the beginning stages this is something that is needed)

Sellers can also save on marketing costs, listing fees, and staging.

Looking at opening a home this year in California but in the research stage and trying to learn from others.

Utterly confusing... 

Lien waivers are also helpful tools and always require them as you advance through stages of the project.

I'm in SA and still in the infancy stages of investing.