I have read a couple of Brandon Turners books on house hacking and multi family and really enjoyed his writing style.Brandon Turner’s books are great picks!

@Matthew Giblin you're highly unlikely to succeed if you spread yourself over 4 markets.Recommend you do more research and just pick one of the 4 markets.Then do a trial run and see how it goes. 

@Cameron Porter +95% of the land bank inventory is already picked over by the time it hits the public.The only people we know that have bought ALL went over budget and only the increasing market covered what would have been losses.So, proceed VERY carefully!

If I could, pick your brain a bit more, how much do you typically set aside for things like CapEx/Vacancy?

Just to pick on point 1 a little. 

I introduced them to a mid-sized brokerage in the area (from what I’ve heard, they’re picking up steam) who specialized in finding off-market opportunities that don’t get plastered all over Zillow.

When you start "picking" tenants or doing favors or acts of kindness for tenants is really when you can get yourself in legal trouble. 

The final straw was just last week when tenant randomly attacked my competency in my professional career.

Tom Cruz being that Wang that films Tik Toks in front of random yachts?

Let me ask you this question, could you pick any of the following walking down the street:Andrew Florance, Carrie Wheeler, Bruce Flatt, Robert Reffkin, David Nunes...Put it this way, if you cannot afford a full-time attorney on your payroll, you do not need to have a complex legal structure.