My suggestion and that is all it is is to stick with company for awhile get use to the job get some experience under your belt.

After getting one deal under my belt I may then venture off the beaten path. 

I don't think that you use an LLC unless you are building a business to attract investors and that is a more complicated structure with more costs involved and I think you only do that when you have a lot of success under your belt and know how to deploy hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars with outside investors' money. 

So let’s say I switch jobs in 2022, and we have at least 5 deals under our belt, from rentals to flips or anything else, and we’re in the process of obtaining another loan for another deal in 2022.

Once you have 1 property under your belt.

I'll add wholesaling to the tool belt down the road.

@Rob BeaumontHey congrats on starting you’re path, I’m also a newbi just one 4 family under my belt but working on the second one , If I can give you my humble input, study everything , read books, ask question on BP, anything that gets you’re knowledge up , and take action, since I bought my almost moths ago ican allready see a change in my life , speaking in the overall aspect, Keep it up!

Cleveland may be in the rust belt, and there may be a steady population decline attributed to that fact, but there are a bunch of stable industries in the area that makes it unlikely that Cleveland will have a rapid decline like Detroit.Anyways, let's see some major industries in Cleveland fail before we start calling it out as a potential Detroit.

New to the real estate investing world (I have one deal under my belt!)

You can get better funding if you partner with someone who has at least 2 properties completed under their belt.