Remember the purpose of screening is to find any and all reasons to reject applicants.

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but my wife and I are hoping to also build a shipping container home in the LA area, but unlike OP our goal is to build a perm home and in the future add in an ADU as a rental unit (or start off with a single 40ft container as a live-in while building out a longer term larger property out of many containers).Was purposefully vague about where we want to buy our land.

I'm currently looking into acquiring my realtor license for investment research purposes.

For instance l, you can net $5,000 but due to depreciation show a net loss for tax purposes of $1,000.That's why I love rental real estate. 

What year/decade do you draw the line on investment purposes?

You have done your search already, pick the right one for pre-qualification purpose and later on compare rate and closing cost with other lenders.  

Flexibility on purpose what you can use funds for.Other options are to save in regular mutual funds contributing on a monthly basis- taking advantage if dollar- cost averaging..You may want to talk to one of the financial planners.

Skip the LLC unless you need it for commercial loan purposes or you have a true company operating at a large scale.  

Student loan debt and rent spikes will fuel a drive to even cheaper areas within the City and the local owners will embrace it but the tenants will be upset by the gentrifiers because their rents will go up and new, different businesses will push out older, familiar shops.I find it a little ironic that a couple of anti-gentrification folks are resorting to these types of tactics to keep presumably white gentrifiers out of a German neighborhood. 

If the purpose of being a Brokerage is to save money on your own transactions, you will need a lot of transactions to cost justify it.Your personal presence is based on having a Brokerage and a Closing Agent who understand doing business with Investors.