Not to be rude, but it's my experience, that if people dont absolutely love building they won't be good tradesmen.If its learning flipping as a whole, I'd start with J.

We just started using Baselane, and perhaps we could lean on that more to be able to track the expenses, categorize them per property/per tenant/mark as 'tenant expense'/mark as 'tenant reimbursed' or 'tenant unreimbursed', and then create a security deposit balance report, that would pull everything together.I'm just looking for advice from someone that has already figured out a simple and standard way to handle this.

You could start reporting her late to the credit bureaus(it would get reported once it's 30 days past due), that might get her attention.

You can do a good title search for your own, obviously, you have to do good due diligence2) The same as above, you can use a bunch of online tools (starting from Google Maps e.g.) and use specific services to get photos of the property3) It's wrong.

My name is Tommy and I'm new to the REI world but I've had the desire to get into it since I bought my first  home - primary residence in 2020 but never had the capital to start.

Can you do this under an LLC and was there any fees for getting this started?

I’ve always been eager to get started but also too scared to just stick my neck out & make the wrong purchase.

This is just the start of it.

Unfortunately, 2024 started off slow, and we only closed a 4 unit in April. 

The draw back when starting out is there can be some cost savings with "bundling" everything together.