It's now almost impossible to get a mortgage with a FICO score under 560-580 range.Overall, the housing market has higher average FICO scores and more equity than the 2008-2010 period.This makes it much less likely we'll experience another Great Recession, but there are no guarantees.

Not impossible, but much harder than before. 

If your 401K is with your current employer, it is (effectively) impossible to make it an SDIRA. 

**Nearly impossible to find right now

Bottom line, it’s not impossible, but definitely challenging for someone just getting started.

I'm not saying it's impossible or they don't exist.

In the real world, its hard if not impossible to get all 4 aspects on a single deal.

I was holding approximately 20 of their properties at that time, so you can imagine that unexpectedly paying out 20 interest payments every month was impossible.   

My answer wasn't aimed at an actual answer, that would be impossible. 

Never built in Houston before so take my feedback with a grain of salt but I'd put money on it being impossible to build a duplex from scratch for $125 a foot (including everything from drawings, engineering, permit fees, general conditions, labor, material, landscaping).Out here in AZ the builder cost is going to be $200 a foot at best, but add 20% on top of that for the client cost.