My advise is to start with single family or a small multi-family ground up project first but this market environment is truthfully not the time to be completing any ground up projects unless you are self performing the construction which it doesn't appear you are in a position to do.There was a recent Philadelphia  forum chain started by someone else who was contemplating ground up in a similar fashion to what you are proposing and I cautioned they would be better off buying something that was newly built and believe after conducting their own diligence realized it was too cost prohibitive at this time to build with 3rd party GC's in Philadelphia when also accounting for the interest rate environment and cost to build.

I'm not looking to JV, and I know services like Investorlift are great, but that's not in the budget at the moment.

Jesse, I am an insurance broker who is able to assist with insurance/risk management products all across the nation.

Hi, I am starting to self manage my rental property and have below Qs.

The tenants power was shut off for non-payment and I need to put the account back in my name.Recently my HOA sent me photos of my rental townhome with a gas generator running in the yard and the electric meter missing and shorted out.

Find a market you like, then look for a really good property manager with a long track record.

He insists that he does not want to and is not going to live there now and went to the courts today and got a protective order against her.   

I am getting a little scared as my wife is an experienced realtor and is experiencing the same across all her listings in central FL. 

My Fiance and I are very familiar with the arbitrage model, however the main benefit of the course would be to scale faster than we could alone. 

However, I usually recommend adding a third entity to the structure, a so-called management entity ("Management Co"), an entity I think is often overlooked amongst investors.