I would be paying all in cash.

You can determine what a decent salary would be for someone in your market and then reverse-engineer to see if what you're paying as a salary, plus the projected performance commission, will get you there.

There are some lenders who will do a 10% down payment up to 4 units and you do not have to live in them.

This might turn out to be a good approach.   

Save this list so that you can email it to people who ask about your "buy box".

think 10+ years at this point. 

No and you need to put this on hold and research the condo nuke that's about to hit Florida in the form of new legislation that no longer allows condo boards to defer necessary repairs. 

I have a couple of Bay Area clients and used to live in the Bay Area myself.

Although I am not sure how to enforce this one, there should be active, on-going communication from the the borrower to the lender .... as one would expect from a GP/Operator to the LPs in a private equity syndication. 

Please note that this is for a Texas Series LLC.1.