I've personally utilized private notes on three transactions and participated in another handful of negotiations with sellers on behalf of buyers in the past five years. 

If you close with a conventional loan, it will need to be in your personal name.

I do have an agent I know personally but she's only in the area at certain times of the year.Section 8 would be better than nothing.

Call it the organization's personality.

No Personal Use: You or family members cannot live in or personally use the property.2.

The other method is to use a “safe harbor”, i.e., the specific procedures laid out by the SEC in Regulation D.  

@Antoine Black  In general, yes, it goes off your personal credit. 

Personally when buying rentals I tend to buy in neighborhoods that I feel like I wouldn't personally mind living in and when I look for tenants I try to look for people that not only pass my screening but also I personally don't dislike.  

In person is better than over the phone if possible, as I have been told by annoyed or lazy clerks "NO STR allowed" as that was the easy button to get me off the phone, or if they are anti STR. 

@Jerry Chilimidos I am not a CPA owever my understanding is any loans to your IRA can not be personally guaranteed.