I've been working with a realtor and looking for tenant-occupied properties but I've noticed properties that are listed under$50K produces the best ROI but it's difficult to finance those type of properties. 

The question is whether the investments you might make in real estate with a self-directed retirement plan would produce better results for the retirement plan that leaving it invested as it is currently.

Any property manager that does not require this should be looked at with a healthy dose of skepticism, as they are not even doing a best practice to protect themselves.

@Bryan Cork,  Almost every QI out there with a web site has produced articles and how to's . 

The owners produced an appraisal done in 2017 that showed a value of $560000.

I can put around 100-150K for down payment if necessary, but I want to keep the first investment as low as possible, like you guys mentioned, keeping a healthy cash flow. 

But the average rent in that area for a 1 bedroom apartment is $530 and owners are currently only charging $410 and the average 2 bedroom in that area is $697 and owners are only charging $510, if I purchased the property at the the price of the comps in that area and was able to get the rents to the average it would produce a 16.3% COC return and cash flow $2013 bucks a month!

@Elizabeth Wilson The short answer is no - all else being equal, the platform you use to produce the site doesn't matter.

Hello BP family,I'm a real estate investor from the Nashville, TN area focusing on rehabbing, wholesaling, and buying/holding income producing properties in the Chicagoland area.

But you can't bring down that yearly income value simply by saying you only kept X amount of the income produced.