I too have difficulty with the scheduling of the local REI groups and have found the podcasts invaluable.

Would like to learn more about your goals and what difficulties you face.

One of the difficulties that I experienced is finding decent places with a secondary suite in my price range (under $350,000).  

Instead get  a longer listing commitment and then if the seller wants expensive advertising you might offer in allowed in your state ( and with your brokerages approval) to rebate their advertising expenses at closing they pay for with legitimate receipts off the commission.This way if a seller pulls off the market,goes with another brokerage mid listing, or tries to cancel early etc. the seller will be out the money and have skin in the game.

Hello @Steven Gillmer, much of the comments you have received on this post speak about how prices in MF have risen in Boise and the difficulty of finding a property to pencil.  

Being an LLC how difficult is it to invest in other states than the state in which your LLC is registered?

I have difficulty finding comparable comps.  

I originally went looking for a source of knowledge on investing that was talking about the difficulties of investing and not about how it's the end all beat all of get rich paths.

It is difficult, I never said it wasn't.

Considering the small amounts you have available in each IRA, you may have difficulty finding a lender that will do a loan that small.The entire transaction has to be done within the IRA.