I decided it was worth my time to delay my "start" until I fully vetted other individuals and their advice.

Success in any endeavor is too individual.  

Ryan,All three of those options are good ones, I have seen individuals build successful real estate careers utilizing those strategy.In short, option 1 is get started as an investor and option 2 & 3 are get started as an industry professional.

They are all rented out by individual construction workers. 

It’s very hard for most individual investors to qualify for millions of dollars in debt.

An example would be if you hear about a new sales technique from someone on a podcast but they're main clientele consists of higher class white collar individuals while you're trying to sell to lower class, blue collar individuals.

I will ask the agent about getting them all under one or individual.  

The author you tagged seems to invest in mountain cabins and beach locations...all listed on her profile.

These are all mass repetitive "Contained" environments.Now the next great investment will be Auto over the road trucks, Nano Cancer treatments, Nano crop pesticide reduction, Solar electric surface paint generation, Water pumping technology from the Mississippi River to California/Arizona (reverse Dam management(actually don't recommend this, will cause excess salination of the Gulf)), Certified Individualized Student learning platforms, etc. 

I have never had to prove that someone had a pet that wasn't authorized.