My HELOC will help supplement financing costs, and rehabs in the event the HM isn't favorable.

Quote from @Chance Schrettenbrunner: Fair Housing provides some pretty generic guidance on this and then leaves landlords to fend for themselves.Here's the latest guide: https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/PA/documents/HUDAsstAnimalN...The bottom line: tenants are allowed to claim the ESA at any time and you have to consider it.

Unlike leads you can order online from a generic website, I can guarantee that the leads I pull are fresh (60 days or less), off market, and I use a ranking system to determine which sellers are most motivated based off of factors such as the executor of the property living in a different state and the amount of siblings the house has been inherited by.

Is there a generic number I can plug in if I don’t have actual repair bids numbers?  

The supplemental bill was over $7000! 

Certainly the experience will help....but I would look at PM as more taking a job to be able to make money to supplement buying properties with your wife. 

Some drawbacks are being impersonal and not having a generic business card for everything.  

No, not 1 singular mention of the trillions kicked out to help supplement people, apparently that was National Beer Money day. 

We specialize in real estate agents, investors, contractors and also do more generic tax preparation and consulting.

If you run your numbers well, each property should give you a monthly cash flow which you can either use to supplement your own income or use towards the acquisition of additional properties and scale in this manner.