Imagine giving me $20k and I give you $1,000/year back and in 10 years it “paid for itself”   You don’t use it for an investment  you use it to punish oil producing countries that hate us or to show your neighbors you’re better than them  :-)  Usually it’s a horrible plan for rentals because you either have to charge higher rent and include the electricity or charge a flat rate discouraging them from saving power.

Yes you take a pay cut but your purchasing power increases. 

Investors/Partners: Build a network of partners for joint ventures, sharing risk, and increasing buying power.5.

I have two primary investor-partnerships thus the buy power is doubled as major projects come from 2 sources.

While I'm not a lawyer and I would always encourage you to speak to one I believe you can 1031 homes but I would say it's much more powerful as you scale with commercial.

Keep growing that Roth IRA, as the principals of compounding interest in the absence of taxation are powerful! 

A large tree fell during the storm last week and took the stairs out so the tenant has no way to access the unit until we can fix the power lines and remove the tree which we're working on.

You may find it useful to seek an unofficial preliminary meeting with the local powers-that-be to get a read on how much resistance there's likely to be with your development, as well as getting an early read on things they'll "suggest" to make necessary approvals more likely.

If you make the membership of this entity the members of the other 2 LLCs then you've also probably simplified and defined decision making power as well. 

I just still need power.