A lot of what you're paying for is free / reduced with Baselane. 

A strong team can streamline processes and reduce headaches.Expand Knowledge: Podcasts and forums like BiggerPockets are great tools.

However, vacancy means covering 100% of the expenses.Multifamily properties almost always generate higher cash flow due to multiple income streams, which also reduces the risk of vacancies.

Are you able to reduce your expenses quickly and easily if needed?

More possible is reducing immigration to a net zero or negative number over time, which would have essentially the same effect as mass deportation but over a longer, controlled timeline.

Any unused funds from the engagement fee are typically credited to the borrower at loan closing, reducing your total cash to close.

We would like to learn about how we should have went about it so that we can purchase more properties, minimize mistakes, and reduce our reliance on corporate life.

Tax benefits should be considered but not be the sole factor.The 'main benefit' from a tax perspective should be to generate a high return from your real estate investments and not to pay taxes on the return that you get.If you are able to reduce your taxable income, that should be icing on the cake.

Without the high leverage you reduce the top source of return in CA RE which is achieve via the appreciation on a high leverage property.  

If they're able to re-negotiate even 40% of the current tariffs levied on us + move the 10 year closer to pre-election time, then it's likely we're in a state of austerity + negative GDP growth which means Jerome reduces rates rather quickly not necessarily aggressively.Once that sequence is complete, you'll see the economy settle then rip up to the right.