The total value (purchase price + improvements) must meet or exceed the relinquished property’s value to defer all taxes.

In other words, the employee contribution limit in 2019 is $19k, meaning you can only contribute $19k total between both plans (as the employee).SDIRA contributions do not count towards this $19k.

Total cost of land and size?

That pushes cash on cash from down payment about 5.5 to 6% starting out and with mortgage paydown about 10% total return annually before rental increases.

Also totally willing to go in by myself on deals.

In the City of Austin, we saw a 6.5% increase to $575,000*Total sales increased 2.5% in the metro.

But if you're going out of state or just don't want the hassle, starting with a property manager is totally fine!

It is Vanguards total stock market index and consistently outperforms most ETF funds year over year. 

So if you have the property for a total of 10 years, moved in at year 8, little value or tax advantage.

This totally would have been a deal breaker had I known before signing up, but now I'm too far into it to turn back, so I need to make something work.