They know a large amount of flippers.

It's your only rental right now and I know that as you scale and get bigger it may not be feasible to cut/maintain all your lawns.

Same thing for your partner on the difference between his sale % of 2.7 mil and the anticipated purchase of 1.65.If the profit is large enough this might be justified. 

I’d rather work one job and spend more time on real estate investing because you’ll be able to scale faster.

A CA CPA should be able to do your MO LLC returns for you, and would have a better understanding of the large complex CA personal return than someone in MO will have. 

A large chunk is liability, which is going to be the same if not higher on this property, since it is an investment. 

I bought a few books, watched a bunch of videos and save a large portion of my income to use for investments. 

Just trying to find a way to scale ASAP.

I can probably put down up to $20k, but I like having a little more liquid assets in the bank since almost every time I've received orders to move, I've had less than a month's notice and there are quite a bit of expenses in moving...However, since I'm "guaranteed" to be in NY for two years, I think I can afford to keep less money in my checking/savings accounts and put down a large down payment. 

Bitcoin, at least, has a decade of history and a very large core of brilliant developers working on it.