This agreement does not prevent you from making a passive investment in any publicly traded securities so long as such investment does not confer upon you or any entity that controls you, is controlled by you, or is under your common control of 5% or more of the outstanding securities of any such entity as described above.

Buy a new range to keep tenant happy, or buy a new tray/pan for the broiler, or clean the damn thing for her, or tell her to live with it? 

It's going to be damn near impossible to be an OOS investor in those areas.

Damn, must not be a tenant friendly State.

Have you checked with the local authorities on any outstanding code violations?

The repayment terms for a 401k participant loan are equal monthly/quarterly payments of principal and interest (typically prime plus 1%) over a 5 year term (longer if used to acquire your principal residence).Please note that if you take a full $50,000 and then pay back the loan, you can't take another $50,000 until 12 months after the first loan was fully paid back.Per the loan offset rules that went into effect with the 2018 Tax and Job Act: if you leave your job and the loan is current at the time you leave your job but then the loan goes into default because you left your job, you will have until your tax return deadline (including any timely filed extension) to make the loan current by depositing the outstanding balance into an IRA (and thereby avoid the taxes and penalties that would otherwise apply).Alternative: Rollover Funds to A Solo 401k & Take a 401k loan or Invest in Real Estate DirectlyIf you are self-employed (i.e. active self-employment earned income separate from your w-2 income) with no full-time w-2 employees, you can set up a Solo 401k and then rollover your 401k funds once you leave your current job [NOTE: You generally can't rollover funds that you saved to your current employer plan until you quit.].You could then take a loan of up to 50% of the balance not to exceed $50,000.

He called me just after the deadline and said "Well I'll be damned, a young realtor that knows how to use an escalation!

Negative rental history, eviction, or outstanding monies owed to a previous landlord are unacceptable.

I've tried searching houses for rent, but damn near everything I find is a unit in a multi-unit or at least part of a 2-flat, so I'm not sure how to determine rent on something like that.

In Ohio if theres outstanding balance it can over time become the property owners responsibility but only if it in fact reverted to my name.