It’s a free meeting and you are interviewing them.Good luckWayne

Joe Fairless interviewed Rich Carey on his Best Ever Podcast.

@Benny Gelbendorf glad it got to you at the right time and hope you get a lot of value from the podcast interview I did with @Brandon Turner and @Joshua Dorkin as well!

@Toi Perry if you haven’t already, begin searching for an agent, and be comfortable “interviewing” a few.

The other benefit of having someone travel to remote locations are to have a presence during major construction projects and to initiate and interview and inspect property managers.You would all know better than I would if there is value here. 

Hire them hourly and put them under your wing... this is basically like the interview process... you groom the individual slowly giving them more and more responsibility over the next 2-5 years until they can run the job site on their own with minimal input from  you and can clearly communicate any issues that may arise.

Contact 2 or 3 to interview them personally then make your choice.TD Ameritrade and Fidelity do not offer truly "self-directed" IRA, they might offer some control, but only within confines of their allowed investments, which is confined to the stock market and does not include alternative investments such as private lending. 

Interview a bunch and go for the best deal with good references. sjw

Grayson,  We would love to interview for the job. 

I love interviews with people like this that have been doing this kind of thing for longer than podcasts have been around because I think there's a lot to be learned from their experience.Vino at one point said that a rule of thumb they followed was that the cap rate of the property they were buying had to be 3%+ above what they were paying for financing.