Hi Bob,If you have had a positive experience like it seems that you have, I'd suggest sticking with your current turnkey provider.8 years is a long time and only having 2 tenant turnovers in that time is fantastic.They have stood the test of time and not many turnkey providers do.Also, why fix it if it's not broken?

Stress test your capex, occupancy rates, rent rates, etc

I could've lent the money out or invested in notes, but I'm more interested right now in asset accumulation.I ended up simply rolling my SDIRA into my current 401k and taking a loan against that, thereby being able to utilize almost 100% of those funds (not quite at $100k in the 401k, but close) and purchase a duplex with a conventional 30 year loan.If I had $150k or more in my SDIRA I would have looked at other options, but with only $50k I found the path I chose to make the most sense.

Quote from @Lucas Thomas: Quote from @Nick Bradshaw: Hi, I'm new to the real estate investing world and I wanted to give it a test run with house hacking.

The fist one for $ 5,000 to "test the waters".  

When they are gambling on a completed project, they want to know a battle tested captain is at or along side the wheel. 

Btw they didn’t pass the smell test and many elderly people were scammed into buying their 35,000 dollar Platinum training level.  

Take the profits from the AirBnb and roll them into apartments.Apartments may take longer to create equity, but I'd rather do one 50 unit deal than several smaller deals.

But, the founders of those groups spent decades in growing rolls within other companies before jumping out on their own. 

And while the borrower doesn’t have to come to closing with this money (it’s rolled into the loan) it’s still there – making an FHA loan have higher costs and higher APRs because of it.Are there any other differences between Fannie Mae and FHA?