If you do this for a few years your credit will have notably improved and you will have a chunk of change to take to the table which can hide a multitude of sins. 

Monthly owner statements are table stakes, but I also started requiring photo documentation of all repairs, a running maintenance log I could access anytime, and written approval for anything over a certain dollar figure.

If you're flipping for investors, you can move it faster but might leave money on the table.

If house hacking is off the table, the two paths I see work most often are:partnering with someone who has capital but needs hustle, ortaking on value-add projects where sweat equity creates the spread (small BRRRRs or light flips).If I were starting over, I’d focus on learning how to find and evaluate deals.

That makes it much easier later to find partners, private money, or even bring your own deal to the table.

Table closings are a thing of the past.

I've attached my full analysis spreadsheet with cash flow projections, sale proceeds breakdown, and 10-year comparison if anyone wants to dig into the numbers.Am I leaving money on the table by selling, or is this the right call?

At the very least have enough seats at the dinner table and corresponding dinner ware.

Solid plan... the issue I face with your first point is time wasted = money left on the table... instead of waiting for a correction, I feel that building from the ground up is the move, this way you're creating your own opportunity rather than waiting for a unicorn project.

But you also still leave a lot of equity on the table.