A developer would be a good person to talk to as well if you can find one.

@Aaron DuboisI don't know what your personal situation is, but can you house hack an STR with your own capital? 

Renting by room to the max occupancy to minimize the outflow of your personal cash into the property.3.

However, I need to find the easiest/fastest way to transfer them to the business so I can separate the investment properties from our personal finances and have the business separate. 

I’m looking for Net and occupancy for 2023.The unit I have a contract on was mostly used for personal use, I’m looking for rental numbers…. and sellers aren’t willing to give these up. 

Me personally, it took me a while to understand what the expectations were for rentals in my market for different classes of rentals and it was much different than I would have expected at the beginning.

I’ve only sold 2 personal residences and I sold them both myself.

It's generally a good idea to keep rental income and expenses separate from your personal finances.

David, the amount you will have to spend to locate the property (run adds, put up signs, buy lists and etc) is not comparable to the amount you would have to invest if you wanted to personally buy that property, hire a crew to fix it and absorb the costs of owning that property before you could sell it.

From CSLB:This section defines what an owner-builder is and the laws surrounding the practice.An owner-builder is what the term indicates: a person owns the property and acts as their own general contractor on the job, and either does the work themselves or has employees (or subcontractors) working on the project.The work site must be their principal place of residence that they have occupied for 12 months prior to completion of the work.The homeowner cannot construct and then sell more than two structures during any three-year period.Getting a GC license and going Legit is pretty difficult.