PRESTON - First of all - CONGRATS on an awesome 1st deal out of the gate cash cow !!  

I want to house my investments in the LLC, however the cost to do so seems high right out of the gate.

Hello,I'm a new investor and ran into an issue right out of the gate.

@Marc WeisiIf you want to be an investor primarily, I would say go the agent broker route.As an agent, you will come into contact with more buyers sellers investors.Networking is the key to investing.You can pick up construction knowledge as you go.Home inspection may lead to greater more predictable income out of the gate, but long term assuming your goal is to scale up investing than in my opinion becoming an agent is the way to go.At the end of the day, it comes down to what you want and where you want to be 5 10 years from now.Nothing against home inspection but that is trading your time for money.Investing is making your money work for you while you sleep.

I want to try to at least cash flow out the gate but for whatever reason I can't seem to make the numbers look right.

The units don't have a connecting door on the inside, however there is a large backyard, separated by a shared fence w/ 10ft gate allows the backyard to be shared. 

When you buy houses there are always unexpected costs out the gate.

It won't be "small" anymore, except maybe as compared to Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

I'd give them about a week's notice, usually, it means they'll clean things up in preparation of your arrival...but that doesn't hurt (good idea to check storage areas for junk they might be piling up or storing though).You don't need to invest out of the gate, but we use an app called Happy Inspector to actually schedule and standardize inspections.

Sometimes I search tax records and find owners who have 20+ properties in town, and at least half of the time they live in a particular fancy gated community called Landfall.