German Village and Downtown Columbus because they are near where I work and live so I can self manage them.

Those numbers are also factoring in self management.

If the sign is tired, so is the self-managing owner. 

Self Storage, Houston Tx.: Doing well. 

Does anyone have experience/recommendations of lenders who work with investors who have moved away from W2 income and can prove self sufficiency? 

Self directing my IRA.

Unfortunately many lenders will see this as a red flag and may not take the risk to lend you the rest of the money even if you use stated income program or bank statement program but those are for self employed borrowers who have active income from their business but write off to many expenses that when filling their taxes their net income is really low or sometimes negative.

I'm starting out with a triplex that I plan to self-manage (in Pittsburgh).

I plan on building self storage on the property,  and have enough money in a CD to build the first one.

But the facility is obsolete so that no self pay patient or insured patient would live there.