That's not my style. 

There's a occupied 3/2 in the front, with tenants who will move July 1 and a 1/1 California style bungalow around back, recently vacant.

., in addition to the down payment, make sure you raise money for the tax and insurance reserves, working capital, lender fee, mortgage broker fee, application fee, attorney fees, securities attorney, title work, survey, appraisal, physical inspection, environmental study, etc.As a rule of thumb, you can estimate the above around 3% of the purchase price.Also, as @Kit England mentioned, you will need to raise funds for cap ex.

AndI can't quite get my arms around it why this style is so popular.Anyway, look over this article about "experimental rental units."

It really comes down to your learning style - whether to go online or classroom.

One inspection you can not skip on commercial is a phase one environmental.

He would last 30 minutes of his business day grab a few of the complaint forms at Nestle and call the peron. so he would get on the phone and say this is Mike I am president of Staufer foods and you had a complaint about our mac and cheese.. he was talking to a house wife in Kokomo or some other city.. take notes then discuss at management sessions... lots of take aways from his business style.

It may reduce the reason you have for your LLC to go through the style of funding you are proposing. 

Maybe searching for a partner and get right into new build projects.. or do I need to prove myself on a few more smaller renovation-style projects?

Survey, soils, environmental (if necessary), various city or county zoning fees & permit fees, address cards, utility disconnects/taps, insurance, storm water, architectural/civil/structural, etc.