Sales pitch and/or mentorship program gonna be sliding into your DMs in 3, 2, 1... 

Great program, and so gald they got those year with coach before he retired.Thanks for documenting it all for them over the years.

The plan is to create an LLC per investment property we purchase, held in the holding company. 

But for real estate development there are not gurus like that really (other than land flippers), but there are a few colleges that actually have pretty good real estate development programs, such as Cornell, University of Southern California, Arizona State University and others. 

Also, if you haven't completed your estate planning yet, if you own real property, now may be a good time to consider that for your family. 

I'm planning to reach out to see if people are interested in investing equity in a condo to get it at a discount, maybe at construction cost. 

My plan is to 1031 this into a duplex.

(I’m working on getting the wife onboard with our long term plan, too.

You get grandfathered into the codes that were in place at the time, you get the old setbacks, you don't pay an architect, engineer, city and permit fees, plan check costs, school fees and other costs that will not come with an existing house.Not saying that you can't build new for less than a remodel, but not usually when you add in all the costs above. 

I'm planning to use VAs to help with the first part that you mentioned - qualifying homeowners based on interest in / willingness to sell.