The population is almost half of what it used to be 2010, property values are going down, median home prices -1.5%,..You are making the classic nooby mistake looking at cashflow as your #1 criteria.

In 2023, we made the decision to move to USA and chose NC for many reasons, Mooresville specifically, as my husband is a mechanic and doing classic auto restorations.The immigration process has been brutally long as I am still waiting for my visa to be able to officially immigrate and work.

@Kadeem Kamal, consolidation from several smaller properties into one larger property is a classic 1031 strategy called a "consolidation exchange". 

I am supposed to enter the agreement with an LLC and I am wondering if I would be able to re-purpose an LLC that we set up in Ohio earlier this year but never did anything with.

MI goaded investors into this with the classic bait and switch.

I seem to have timed some REIT investments well too - nothing I did, just classic DCO. 

I do both an email and a phone call I usually email first and do a phone call to ask if they have a phone number.Thank you for the advice, I understand the lack of creating equity but I feel like all I'm doing is the same as any other buisness which is getting a product, repurposing it for a consumer, and selling said product/service.

Classic Don.. 

If there are, sell them and repurpose the money into that new market.

Like Brandon mentioned - you sound like the picture perfect classic "DSCR Loan" borrower - dscr loans are made for exactly this typically - LLC friendly and usually the best fit for when investors hit the 5 or so property mark and hit a roadblock with banks, cash etc like you desribed.Check out this 12-part article series published here on BP on all about DSCR Loans, hope it helps!