@Joseph LaliaEven if someone give you a referral, what meets their expectations, may not meet yours.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

You can do a 2+1 bridge loan (24 months) with 6 month extensions for pts..  

May need to obtain bids for extensive work that needs to be performed23.

Without one, I fear a judge would see my single member LLC as an extension of myself and thus it won't provide me the legal protection it's intended to. 

There are extensive resources out there so I won't talk your ear off with recommendations, but at the end of the day, business is a person-oriented endeavor.

There's no cream to pay someone to do simple work and you'll have a lot more say in tenant selection and ongoing maintenance and repair situations.   

I do have a fairly extensive background related to personal finance with teaching Personal Finance and previously having a career as a Financial Advisor, but as for REI I am hoping to make my first multi-family unit purchase in the next 6 months.  

I may consider a traditional value add with a select few sponsors.  

"Rental apartments typically employ 12-month leases, perhaps with monthly lease extensions after the first year, implying that rents can be adjusted annually, if not monthly; self-storage facilities typically have similarly short lease terms.

Hedge funds are certainly more worried than they were in 2021 or even earlier this year.I certainly wouldn't rely on them for your operation, they only buy select markets, but still at decent prices.