Depreciation Benefits via Leverage: While you can't claim depreciation personally on IRA-owned real estate, SDIRAs can use non-recourse loans to purchase property.

Being able to purchase a property with only 5% down means you can leverage your money way more effectively.

I am not sure, but I imagine that you could also help out and lend your credit to this type of purchase. 

Looking at purchasing small 3 BR 1 BA house.

I purchase my personal investments to maximize their equity and hold long term.

You could sell the AITD to a note buyer who will pay off the underlying at closing - BUT the buyer will need to purchase the wrap for at least the amount of the underlying.

Purchase price: $302,500 Cash invested: $5,000 Utilized VA Loan for a House Hack for my first Rental Property.

Makes complete sense to purchase a property that breaks even or loses money.

I know that something has to change and I want to explore purchasing real estate.

Quote from @Rene Hosman: @Austin Wolff recently went through this process of identifying markets to purchase in and he goes over his thought process in this episode on the Rookie podcast about how he used the MarketFinder here on BiggerPockets to find markets that met his criteria Podcast: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-473MarketFinder: https://www.biggerpockets.com/marketsI specifically only focused on 2 markets (Indianapolis and Fayetteville, AR) before I found a deal using the BP "deal finder."