You already have your foot in the door because it wasn't a "No".

Have to time it with replacing enough of our w-2 income with rental income to make the move feasible/not shoot ourselves in the foot from a financing standpoint.

Apartments- New kitchen layout, moved laundry into each unit, updated bathrooms, new windows (curb appeal), updated paint and flooring, turned the laundry room into the 12 unit.AirBNB- changed usage on the main level from office to 2 unit AirBNB.Office building- removed drop ceilings to add 3 foot ceiling height to make the space seem larger with more natural light.

I will take any advice I can get.I am here to learn and if that means I'm doing the work no one else wants to do to get my foot in the door that's what I'll do. 

(I’m currently active duty Marine Corps, we are about to have our first child in less than a month and my wife plans on working shortly after our son arrives)-Should we raise the rent on the inherited tenant?

But again, if you don’t want to sell, and you’ll just hold it for the long term, or maybe will it to your own child(ren), you don’t totally have to concern yourself with that.

Also, in many older homes proper footings were never poured and that has to be corrected.

For the past two years I've been living in the apartment and renovating while having the main house rented out to a family with one young child.

Knowing who Marcus Mullings really is, I would not have accepted him into my investment group, entered into any agreement to conduct business with him or even allowed him to step foot in my office.

Would you say that there's a typical price per square foot offered for TI money?