Rather than being a “jack of all trades, master of none”, you are controlling your costs, streamlining, and working efficiently.

There are scammers who use the TM symbol but in reality they aren't trade marked at all.

It seems reasonable to me for someone to start under the wings of an investor and trade time for developing some skills to build on. 

When faced with a foreclosed owner who appears calm and not highly aggravated, I derived a method to simply trade time in the property for their actually leaving the property in relatively cleaned-out condition.

To simply say manage is a broad scope of business but is also rather limiting as you may want to buy and immediatley sell a property sometime, that may not meet the scope of business to be conducted and thereby lose the benifits of your LLC if something blows up in such a transaction.Just saying, I prefer to cover the bases specifically, buy, sell, trade, exchange, construct, repair, improve, demolish, develope, lease, sub-let and manage, borrow, advance or lend money and to do all other things necessary and/or related thereto as allowed by law.Doesn't mean you must do those things, just that if you do, it is within the scope of your regular business to be conducted.

I'm in the trades and finding good cintractors is tough.

Even if I choose to buy my own place first in LA somewhere where I can afford, I will look out of state and/or turn key afterwards because I don't have the cash to make these big swing investments and I like spreading out my investments.

I've sold small properties and used the proceeds to "trade up" just never within the 1031 structure.

do you ever see a C+ property in a B- neighborhood trading at an 11 cap in that area?

Any coat tails I could swing from?