I have the goal is investing in real estate using my Self Directed Roth IRA. What is the information I should focus on when comparing companies like Horizon Trust and Equity Trust for Roth? 

In my journey as a real estate investor, I quickly learned the importance of evaluating properties and utilizing underwriting templates.

You want to do a return on equity(current in 2024) to evaluate it as an investment.Return = Annual Cash-Flow and appreciationEquity = FMV less debtThen compare this to what your required return of an investment is along with returns you can get on other investments.If your return is 6% but you can get 8% somewhere else, you may want to consider selling it.Best of luck.

Call your servicer to start the conversation, the terms are dictated by conventional loan guidelines so this will be what is applied:https://servicing-guide.fanniemae.com/svc/d1-1-01/evaluating...

Lots of good advice above. 98 percent of wholesalers don't even know how to evaluate rehab costs and have no access to get the true ARV and don't care either way, they are just trying to make the biggest spread instead of finding the best win-win scenario.

Now, I think each person has to evaluate their level of risk comfort because being highly leveraged can also create problems if there are significant market shifts.

Any valuation must evaluate the expected value after value add as well as the risks in achieving that valuation.  

Like you, I evaluated a bunch of properties back in 2019-early 2020 and regret not making a move back then.

Legislative advocacy is the reason industry associations exist and your association's effectiveness and reach is the main benchmark on which to evaluate them.

This includes thorough property inspections, evaluating neighborhood trends, and understanding the local rental market.