California charges a minimum tax of $800 a year per LLC, and more if you have gross receipts in excess of $250k.

Complicated rooflines, modern details that require a bunch of steel framing, excessively large great rooms, spa-like bathrooms, etc would push you into the $1,000-2,000 range.  

I think I’m stuck in the paralysis stage, I have read some books and been to the conferences.

Since I'm approaching the stage where I'm looking around for a builder what are your thoughts on working with a seasoned rehabber that wants to get into GCing new construction?  

I have at this stage handed this over to an actual attorney, but wanted to check here on anyone else's experience with this.

Far too many get stuck in the "paralysis by analysis" stage, thinking they just don't know enough to get started.

This all sets the stage for what I share next and that's the frequency in which those who post about their lofty goals are seemingly unaffected by the sound advice those who have nothing to gain have to share.

This means you  will likely fail unless you scale to the point where you fall under the category of those who can benefit from operational efficiencies noted above (and very few reach this stage). 

My tenant of 1 year just moved out recently (work transfer), but during the move-out inspection we found that one of the 10X10 bedroom has all four side of the wall covered in screw holes from the time they used it as a computer room (I believe the holes were from the sound deadening foam that they used to attach to the wall) So I was wondering what would seem to be a fairly reasonable cost to be deducted from their Security Deposit for the excessive holes and needing to repaint.

They can recover the excess funds later.