In my opinion one LLC will suffice.Easy answer is you can avoid law suits... lawyers don't sue people they don't believe they can collect against... getting a billion dollar settlement against someone with $10,000 in assets is worthless.A simple search can reveal your assets... if 1 LLC comes back owning 3,000 properties, there's money there. 

Who are the big players in the market who have $100M up to multi-billion $ apartment portfolios?

They lost billions of dollars before the pandemic and will just lose more now.Also syndicating is not some magical business that’ll just automatically make you rich.

After building a billion dollar real estate and tech enterprise I will probably take my resources and piggyback on the progress that others have already pioneered and troubleshooted.

To the lenders that are not banks a 2 million commercial loan is small as they might loan billions a year.Since small loans have less lenders the local banks and credit unions tend to have a niche product and corner on that market.

Also dig deep into the $3.5 billion water street project, backed by Bill Gates.These are my thoughts; there's always different angles to look at the Tampa Bay market.

Female hair and pursues are billion dollar industry in my opinion.

Also, it so close to where the Barack Obama Library which could be about a billion dollars so I think it will go up.  

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

They think just because they have access to BILLIONS of dollars that they become good investors.