Affordability for the average person is essential, in my opinion. 

I would start close to where you live personally. 

Also, long term, I expect Sac will enact tougher restrictions on STR, given the intense housing crunch we're experience, so I personally don't expect that to a be a good long term strategy.

I personally would stay away from condo-tels as they will be even worse and you'll have less opportunity to cash flow. 

I personally don't mind cooking on electric but I will say that cooking on propane is different than what most people know which is natural gas.

I haven't seen a lot of discussion about this topic which surprises me since I feel like personal finance people talk about HSAs all the time! 

The FMR for a 6 BR house is over $1,800....one person's trash is another person's treasure!

I financed this property using down payment funds from 403B and a local commercial bank. 15% down from personal funds. 85% down from community commercial bank. 3yr balloon, 20yr amortization, 7% interest rate.

Keep in mind, you can’t use personal funds or your home's equity to directly fund the SDIRA investment, and all property expenses must be paid from the IRA.

I would personally put them in notice just because they never tried to communicate it on the back end of fixing it.