Right or wrong, this is the way I would feel most comfortable, at least until my wife can sustain our household.So hello!

My wife may feel more comfortable starting in a single family home, but I'm more of the multi family type and house hacking our way into real estate investing.

Use a goal that fits YOUR life, YOUR wealth plan, and YOUR comfort level.

This is designed for CA to not lose track of your deferred gain so that if you ever recognize the gain they can get the associated tax from the time you owned there.  

+1 on obtaining the CCIM designation.

I was thinking that I would like to find someone locally who is further down the path on real estate investing than I am who needs my graphic design/publicity/web/networking skills/property management and etc. so that I can watch deals from conception to implementation.

I am REALLY comfortable being the small apartment investor - First four units, then sixteen more, then twelve, then twelve again, then twenty, then seventeen. 

It is a great rehab and you appear to have a great designer or design team.

That's basically what I'm asking, I'm trying to learn the areas, so I came up with those A, B and C designations based on my discussions with the local investors I've met.  

The alternative is to hire people who are green and don't have the experience needed to design out risk.