If you're comfortable living where you are, equity in your current property or your savings rate would be the two other ways to get your next one which is going to be much slower.

Not one member has ever said an LLC saved them when a standard insurance policy.

Being a one stop shop for mortgage, real estate, and property management helps us save our clients $$$ and they only have one company to deal with and one contact saves time and creates an unmatched synergy.

A landlord friendly state won't save you from a bad deal.Not trying to be discouraging, just realistic. 

Hey Daniel, you can use a platform like Avail that will give you all the info you need to know like:-Credit score- criminal record-eviction historyYou will also need to gather their:SSNIDPaystubs and 3 months bank statementsat least 2 past landlord references.If all the above check out, you likely have a great tenant.

I've included an example below to help illustrate this.So different lenders have different rates (which do vary even for DSCR loans) but these are factors they all consider.See example below:DSCR < 1Principal + Interest = $1,700Taxes = $350, Insurance = $100, Association Dues = $50Total PITIA = $2200Rent = $2000DSCR = Rent/PITIA = 2000/2200 = 0.91Since the DSCR is 0.91, we know the expenses are greater than the income of the property.DSCR >1Principal + Interest = $1,500Taxes = $250, Insurance = $100, Association Dues = $25Total PITIA = $1875 Rent = $2300DSCR = Rent/PITIA = 2300/1875 = 1.23If a purchase, you also generally need reserves / savings to show you have 3-6 month payments of PITIA (principal / interest (mortgage payment), property taxes and insurance and HOA (if applicable).

Starting in your 30's is in some cases better in that you are more mature and disciplined about saving and settled. 

The house I currently own, I am saving over $100k (estimated) on the rehab cost by partnering with this builder (and it takes me out simply finance the deal and, hopefully, make a very good profit).But to your point, flipping is not what it used to be.  

CT isn't cheap so if you plan on doing it there you are going to surprised at how poorly you do. maybe in the suburbs I'm not sure but as much as I know people call us from CT and everyone is rich and has lots of money and things are expensive out there. build to rent is a great model. we build 3 story walk up infill and keep it to the residential side. 3 units is the most units before it's commercial and you need engineering, etc. check comparable and things liek that. we came up with this design a year ago and we sold 10 if you want to talk further please DM me happy to connect. there are some great build to rent conferences. we went vertical not horizontal with it to save on build costs and design to fit on any infill lot. this fits on a 3500 square foot lot. most lots in our area are 30x120 or 30x150. in miami where I live now they are 50x100 or so. but any infill lot we can pretty much get this one on. there are some great build to rent conferences coming up too that if you like this topic I'd recommend attending I'm sure you'd learn a lot. 

Thanks for the info.