You can get started in investing with no education and just make your way through different challenges, but that would not be the efficient way to maximize your return. 

They have been efficient and communicated well with me every time. 

Still the same issues though of transfer in such a way to be as tax efficient as possible. 

Doing so, will allow you to establish goals and set investing criteria that'll make you extremely efficient.

Is the item being repaired/replaced/improve efficiency.

I dont see how you can setup that small of a house as a 3/2 and a 1/1, unless the 1/1 is more like an efficiency. 

The extra dollar is worth the efficiency, quality, and sanity. 2) Fire bad labor.

The property consist of 2 efficiencies and 2 one bedroom/one baths. 

With a commercial loan and the LLC, it will be the lowest cost, most efficient solution.You can then add an Umbrella policy over the top of the Commercial policy if you are looking for more than $1M in General Liability coverage.The insurance companies who will be a good fit for this portfolio will be a separate set of companies than the ones you would use for Homeowners or Flips. 

@Aaron Stern, I'm pretty sure about the 1031, but I'll leave it up to an expert to settle it.The reasons you don't just keep your current property are:You can greatly increase your cash flow (almost doubled in the example above, PLUS you had $675k to invest elsewhere.Your SFR has no efficiencies of scale, so you can do better by getting more units under 1 roof.Your current Return On Equity (ROE) is terrible--1.5%, just for the cashflow (let's leave appreciation, depreciation, mortgage pay-down aside for the moment).