Since this is a bigger project than we have done before we plan on hiring a contractor to do the major work; demo, framing, electrical, plumbing, and sheet rock.

Since this is a bigger project than we have done before we plan on hiring a contractor to do the major work; demo, framing, electrical, plumbing, and sheet rock.

I am working a part time job while going to college, I am trying to do some freelance work but I don't have any skills people are looking for so no luck thus far.

I would strongly advise you to hire an attorney who speaks your native language.

If you do not want to do a syndication, are you planning on starting your own property management company, or just building properties outright and then hiring a 3rd party property management company? 

Once they made me hire an engineer because a support beam had chipped paint.  

I would hire management.

@Thomas J Mele I used Zen business to form my first LLC, however, I did hire an attorney to refine the operating agreement.

Or hire a contractor for $100 - $200 to do what he can to fix it.

I'm here because, like many others, I lost my job in the Insurance industry due to Covid-19 last year, and since then I've been conducting freelance (technical writing, 3D structural design) work to earn an income.