When I closed on my first house hack in Oct 20' I went with TD bank because at the time they were running a $400 new account bonus.

Each of those is relevant when you become a real estate investor. and you're young enough to get some exposure to each and decide which you most want to leverage for your future.

Local tax laws, personal assets, exposure levels and end goals would dictate this.

If they have been good tenants then I would let this go so they are completely safe with no possibility of exposure in hopes they stay for quite awhile. 

It is time of year, ideally, for rent by the room, you want all your vacancies to be from April to August because you will get the most exposure and visibility to the widest audience looking to move here. 

All too often, when "wholesaling" is mentioned in the posting, their first exposure to this community is someone replying with snarky and somewhat belittling remarks.I'm on here to network, learn, and grow, not to tear someone else down.

That depends.If you are selling the whole portfolio to another investor, that probably makes a lot of sense.If you want to retail out of each property, I hope you have a lot of time, are patient enough to deal with all the barely-able-to-afford-this tire kickers, and also have a good way to market the property to maximize exposure and price.

If you think you will work less, or have less balls to juggle by being self employed, you may be mistaken.Your lifestyle may improve (or may degrade) depending on how you how much you like or dislike doing the self employed things you must do.You might make more (bonuses) working W2 at 70+ hours than you will investing (in some positions, for some employers), others exploit their workers terribly, and treat them bad.

This is a huge bonus to them as long as it is structured properly.

I also give bonus, I make it REALLY easy to work with me.