I enjoy managing my own rentals and like being able to regularly visit my properties.

My agent helped a lot when I was just a regular buyer but could hardly grasp the concepts or details/numbers in investing.

If commercial properties, you can seek loans from small local credit unions and banks that base it off of the debt service coverage ratio and regularly provide loans in the 7s.You can also seek commercial loans on residential properties as well.

This is one of the reasons it is regularly recommended.

Since I’ve always owned single family houses I don’t have experience on whether or not these type of properties are a good investment in comparation with regular homes. 

until a couple years ago RE syndications were regularly returning 20% annual.   1) they were not projecting this high return for the most part.  

There is low inventory everywhere and regular home buyers are buying the homes to flip, pushing the prices way up.

At a regular job, you are “guaranteed” income and benefits on a regular basis.

pretty much any lender that follows regular conventional guidelines could do these, however the pricing with just 15% down is not the best and if you are able, likely better to put a little more down for better terms. 

@Wendy ThurstSimply get a regular/traditional home insurance policy.