I am honestly clueless about how to start or make the move.

This would be our first investment and like many starting out, I want to properly educate myself by learning and doing as I go on with this project. 

Started a reading journey in November of 23 that changed my trajectory.  

I started by placing my 1st rental property into an LLC (for this example, *JOHN SMITH PROPERTY INVESTMENT, LLC*).

It's great to hear about you starting your real estate journey.

Not that its impossible to get creative financing or that its bad to start investing I'm not saying that by any means at all the earlier the better but the safety blanket is small with no reserves for an expensive learning experience which in this industry is likely. 

I used money from my business savings earmarked for starting a group home for my mentally ill nephew, who has been struggling since his mother's passing.

Have you already started working with lenders to figure out which loan product might be best and what price point that might put you at based on that?

It's the bulk of our work on any lease, which is why we charge a large leasing fee.Lease renewal requires very little work, usually 1-2 hours.

I’m just starting to explore the world of real estate investing here in the Bay Area.