I know that there huge benefit to shifting tasks to someone that will be more timely and probably even better at them than me. 

I figured out a long time ago, to make real money in the LL biz, ya gotta learn to do high dollar tasks yourself. 

My business partner, Jon and I are newbie investors looking to start our real estate adventure with the purchase of our first of many Multifamily homes for long term rental purposes.

My business partner, Jon and I are newbie investors looking to start our real estate adventure with the purchase of our first of many Multifamily homes in the Miami and Ft.

My business partner, Jon and I are newbie investors looking to start our real estate adventure with the purchase of our first of many Multifamily homes in the Miami and Ft.

Other attractive qualities were money savings from living in the tiny house, later putting it on Airbnb to make some income and the challenge of building something from scratch was adventurous and fun.

., lucrative) task but he's not gonna come over just to plug in a lamp bc he's got other higher priority (i.e., lucrative) work.Your cleaners don't live nearby & don't have any other nearby work in the next 2 days so they can't plug in the lamp.Wondering how you guys handle this situation?

Build new is less expensive at times than buying existing to rehab but with the value add model, you can still create equity (although cash flow is no easy task in So Cal).

Structuring outside funding is not an easy task if done properly.On the other hand, if you simply borrowed money from family who gave it to you on pure trust without any real conditions, and all you want is a short (but possibly incorrect) answer - then it is likely that you will not owe taxes on pulling out this $15k and will not have to report these details to the IRS.

@Brian Watters - welcome and best of luck to you and your fiance on your REI adventures, as I'm sure you've already seen BigerPockets is a wealth of information.