Any other suggestions ?

To new investors with no management experience, I always suggest to start small enough to do it on your own or to reduce the amount of equity you need to raise.  

I suggest reading the guides and browsing the forums.

There are a lot of benefits of being a member which I highly suggest.

An Irish couple in their 60s investing just to take nice vacations and earn an extra $3K/mo.Point is, the 50-100 goal is certainly achievable from where you're starting, but you'll need to be aggressive depending on your timeline to reach that many units if you go one by one.I highly suggest one by one instead of buying an existing portfolio unless you can really learn all about the portfolio and avoid overpaying for it.  

So much of the education and experience in construction management translate to real estate, so you are in a great position.My suggest for you is to look into "househacking."

If you're ok with that, then no rezoning required, but I interpreted your comment to suggest you want a subdivision as in a neighborhood.

First of all,  Security deposits  as rent should ONLY occur on the last month, and never before then - - otherwise you have nothing to hold over for damages on move out.QB is poor when managing security deposits, and when I asked this on a QB forum, you should have seen the procedural mess that was suggested to make it all work. 

Hi Daniel, I would ask if they have completed a reserve study, when the last time was that they passed a special assessment and what it was for, if they have any upcoming capital improvement projects coming up, when the roofs were replaced, when the last time they painted (because if not in the past 8-10 years you may have a lot of leaks).  

Any suggestions for approaching RE brokers who might be interested in forming a relationship based upon our future VR Managment business- after working under broker for 2 years and then deciding to part ways what is the best way to retain properties brought on by myself.