@Joe Schaak Looks beautiful and the staging helps so much!

Since you're just getting 3, I say buy umbrella insurance and skip the LLC - they add a lot of complication to taxes, finances (where you put income, how you pay for things) and I think a good lease and solid insurance will protect you just as well at this stage of the game. 4) How do I decide how long to hold the property?

I am still in the sponge stage so I have no basis to judge just curious

I just started investing so I am not at your stage yet.

Right now we are in the prep stage of setting specific goals.  

I am very new to real estate investing and am at the early stages of setting goals and making a plan that makes sense.  

I am in the planning stage.

Have co-founded a start up that was born as a deep clean, rehab, and staging service, that has blossomed into an investment company as well.

congrats on jumping in. newbie here too. just wished to introduce myself. formerly from washington, dc, i'm just getting started in the staging arena in california and i'm looking to make some connections as well. thanks and sincerely, sydney

you hear a lot on the early stages where people do true partnerships 50-50 on flips.