Ideally, you are only doing 1-3 apps to compare pricing (not a whole slew of them).

LLC commercial financing terms make buy-and-hold deals unprofitable(in the local market) so setting up an LLC seems  not ideal(notwithstanding other asset protection reasons)After a lot of reading, i am leaning towards house hacking one house a year but i am just wondering if there are other creative ways to scale up the portfolio.

Ideally, AirBnB would be more transparent on what all that covers.

As a wanna-be investor with no experience, ideally I'd like to find a relatively turn-key duplex that I could leverage an FHA / low down payment conventional loan on. 

Looking for a platform I can set up ACH auto payments with the current tenants.

Ideally you could refi your existing properties and use the funds as downpayment for new properties.

I'm still a newbie myself, and searching for my ideal out-of-state market, as I reside in the Portland, OR area, which is outrageously inflated at the moment.Anyway, all the best my friend!

But I deal with refinery contractors.

@Brandon I Garcia Ideally the tenants cover water/sewer and sometimes trash.

He stated his underwriter told him unless we swapped our auto and home over to them they could not write the policy with liability on the apartments.