Aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications -- pulled reports from TransUnion, which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

Much different.. last go around was like trying to slow down a cruise ship or a fully loaded train took a lot of time this one is a flip the switch.I am of the belief mortgage markets will jump in sooner rather than later like last time. 

I’m going down with ship though all the way to the bottom.  

We've all seen the photos of school buses and cruise ships being cleaned and it's extensive.

"Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.""

In KCMO, every housing agency (a few of them) warned my property manager that response will be slow, mostly due to the fact that they are all working from home, not coming to the office and many with limited capability working from home.

If you are capable of mitigating those risks there is no reason to stay away from them.C - class neighborhoods are normally harder for first time investors because there is a lot of nuance between section 8 and assistance agencies that people do not understand. 

I am very new to any form of USDA financing, but I am not sure how to make it work for me here.Using a more conventional commercial mortgage or construction loan may work, but the current owners live in the property and have only rented the place out while they were out of town, thus it has netted much less than it is is capable of and P&L is lite. 

I know a decent amount of the capabilities but do you know what creative lists we can find??

This would leave 100% of the funds in the tax-sheltered IRA, but give the IRA the capability to invest in real estate instead of (or in addition to) stocks.