If you live in Macomb County, you already know about as much as you need to know to pick good real estate locations.When buying a stock, the investor has no control over how well it does and we all pay the same price, so we look for stocks with hot growth prospects. 

As you said you are currently still employed there, so you can't do it right away until you leave employment there.Second, once you've rolled over, you can setup your SDIRA as a regular account (where fund release has to go via your custodian) or setup a LLC checkbook option, where you can write out a check for your choice of investments.Yes you will have full control over the use of funds in your rolled over SDIRA. 

Finally, confirm if there are any existing service contracts (for landscaping, pest control, etc.) that may need to be transferred or canceled.

Do you owner occupy this same tri-plex, and are you in a rent controlled area of LA? 

I agree with Laura, if this is a long term rental it would be hard to convince the tenants that they have cameras on the property that the owner controls even with all the stuff that you mentioned (does not turn, only for surveillance for crimes etc.). 

As others have said the house hacking idea is great,  I have an investor that will be getting control of a $1m quad for just $75k.  

She was having significant anxiety and personal problems and once she lost control of it she could not regain any ground. 

I went into the bedrooms and don't notice the sloping floors so much just by 'feel' and admittedly haven't put any measuring device like a level to it. 

Chimene Van Gundy carefully crafted a public persona as a successful buyer and seller of mobile homes before a judge appointed a receiver to take control of her New Braunfels company and she filed for personal bankruptcy last month.But during a bankruptcy proceeding Thursday, she couldn’t recall any particular deal she did to get people to invest with her or that led to her becoming known as “the Mobile Home Millionaire.”

Most investors will also take into consideration risk, time invested, control over the asset, the ability to do a cash-out refinance, and other factors.