This is what I have gathered from successful investors here:  A)  Find a local lender who will enable you to get the "easy money" first, up to 10 mortgages.  

Having your license enables you to take advantage of that desire to sell by listing their home as an agent. 

 I am a professional musician and aspiring investor starting off with wholesaler. 

@Julia Vang Hart: There is no harm in having a checkbook control IRA LLC like that has been discussed here, and you have hit the nail in the head that you have to be careful with the prohibited transaction, but there are other caveats that have to be considered too, when working with the Checkbook Control IRA, LLC... one of them is to enable your IRA to get the beneficial tax treatment, the LLC at any given time has to be deemed as a "real estate operating company", wherein the definition states that: "atleast 50% of the assets, valued at cost, are invested in real estate which is managed or developed and with respect to which such entity has the right to substantially participate directly in the management or development activities and such entity in the ordinary course of its business is engaged in directly in real estate management or development activities"Based on what you have outlined in your initial posting of what you intend to do, it appears you would fall into this definition, but it has to be consistent throughout the life of the entity.

My current focus is buy and hold residential rental property, but I am actively researching other RE strategies such as flipping and wholesaling that could enable me to achieve my goals more rapidly.I am just at the beginning of my real estate journey; I bought my first multifamily property last year!

I can eat the 3% fee since it enables me to get all 4 units rental ready and get income flowing.  

Thus it seems like the platforms that either are sticking to a niche or that are enabling the better quality operators to present projects on their own seem to be better models in theory.  

Scale is key w fewer folks financially able and skilled to take down 300 unit opportunities enabling more upside.

@Chuck Cirulli: I hope you made sure of the following when completing the transaction:(1) Enabling: This is when you (as the disqualified party) and your IRA are joining together, you have to make sure that you are not enabling your IRA to complete the transaction and vice versa that the IRA is not enabling you to complete the transaction (i.e. documenting and maintaining that either one could complete the transaction independently).(2) Simultaneous: This I discussed in my earlier post.Doing percentage interests is not improper, it is same as Tenants in Common, it is maintaining appropriate documentation about the transaction.As I do not know your exact structure there are some post acquisition do's and don'ts too that have to be followed.

I believe that we are likely to see some political action that enables this transition over the next year or two.