And, you will learn a whole lot without losing money.

Markets vary, but buying a home and selling it in 2-3 years, you may end up losing money once you add in all of the extra costs.

Now we have all sorts of fake lenders trolling SM sites promising the moon telling folks what they want to hear and scamming them out of small and Big dollars some of these folks lose 10s of thousands to these folks.. with the  line  " Hey its going to fund next week just need another 5k for some BS item"

I can understand your concern of not wanting to lose your tenant due to a rent increase.

So glad I didn't lose her bc honestly she has been a great tenant for past 3 years.

If it breaks when someone is in there, what is the rental income you would lose and how long would it take?

You can still lose your investment in the LLC.

“Is there a possibility that I will lose my entire investment?”

The interest actually goes back to me so it’s essentially just an opportunity costs question about losing $50k of retirement investments with effectively 0% interest. 

Basically they are a type of insurance and insurance companies make HUGE profits because they pay out MUCH LESS than they take in meaning that over the long term you will lose money with them.