I also have about $200k invested in the stock market (not retirement account).I’m looking to buy my next investment property to grow my portfolio.

You may not know what you want until you try it but one thing is for sure you just need to get started. as Account Closed has said, the BRRR strategy is a LOT of work.

I also want to say that if you’re marketing to traveling nurses, the key things they want are 1) black out curtains; 2) quiet, and 3) to bring their little doggies (so he pet-friendly.Another tip is when using Furnished Finders (which is a $99 annual fee per listing) if you have a multifamily, just get one FF account per address, and then as each unit becomes vacant, just change the pictures and listing copy.

First, don't use REI Reply, it's just a white-labelled/private-agency version of GoHighLevel (the actual provider of the CRM) that they just mark up and charge you extra for everything you do (every text, email, etc is 2-10x more expensive than just linking twilio/mailgun to your GHL account, etc).With that out of the way, you can get to making workflows.

The minimum down payment for a property in this price range would be roughly $27K.That said, you also need to account for bank closing costs, inspection costs, appraisal, attorney fee, and title costs.Your scenario may require a seller's concession to account for these additional expenses.Investing with $50K is totally possible in this market but your journey may be met by challenges i.e.

The entire reason I hired a company is they are the experts and I expect them to take full accountability of making sure I am in the know and 100% compliant.

So once you invest, you're added to the operating agreement of the company and you would now own a percentage of the company's assets - in this case it would include homeowner payments, bank accounts, REO's/properties, as well as all of the notes in the fund.The biggest risk of any fund investment is that you could lose some or all of your investment principle if the company were to go out of business.

Remember you are using debt to make this investment, not reserves  sitting in your bank account so I recommend a more conservative investment approach. 

Credit scores are made up of many factors, one is the utilization of an account vs its credit limit.

You probably had a little tickle in your moral compass which gave you pause, which is why you reached out.My wife is an accountant, when we look for every possible tax break it doesn't feel like theft, we feel accomplished to find a place for more savings and lose zero sleep over it.