At a specified time after completion and closing of the first building, I would proceed to purchasing a 2nd 1/3rd stake as above in piecemeal fashion, and then a 3rd.

@Ian GreenWith most Wall St based plans, you are paying 1-3% of the asset value in some fashion, either in commission, fees, fund loads, etc. 

I must be pretty old fashioned. 

My experience has been that 99% of real estate agents/sellers can't afford to hire a professional photographer and they use their iPhone or Android phone accordingly (and video walk throughs are ANNOYINGLY done in a vertical fashion).If you have a multi-million dollar listing, then you can probably afford a professional photographer, as well as the furniture from a staging company and the models to lay out by the pool during the shoot.Once you consider that, I would recommend Lisa Young in your area - you can Google her work - she will be a good middle market professional photographer in your area.

I've found my best tenants using Facebook, just posting in community Facebook groups.It's so much more efficient than the old-fashioned way if you have a system in place.I don't have to answer calls throughout the day so I can focus on higher-value activities.

Change from a W2 to a 1099 earner if possible (or leverage your wife's new real estate business in similar fashion). 

@Jenessa NeSmith I got started in a similar fashion as you- I purchased a duplex, of which one one side I slowly converted into a STR.

I do have an existing relationship with a commercial portfolio lender who is comfortable loaning to LLC in this fashion, and I assume would be open to other structures too. 

Basically, you can unlock funds from a current employer 401(k) plan.Your employer plan has to adopt the CARES act provisions that allow for Coronavirus Related Distributions (most will).You have to demonstrate per the CARES act provisions that you have been impacted by Coronavirus in some fashion so that you may distribute up to $100K from your cuirrent employer plan without an early distribution penalty.You then can roll that over to any qualified retirement plan such as a self-directed IRA before December 31 of this year and not have to pay any taxes whatsoever. 

so based on these recent huge tech layoffs in CA, there's structural job changes that due to Fed Interest Rate, tech company can not longer operating in sustainable fashion in CA, so they have to move operation.