Log into your account, click on "cost basis"  if it's negative, you can sell everything at a loss today & you should have no tax consequence.  

I currently have been learning Day-Trading for over 8 months as a means for a capital fund for down payments on my future investment properties but do not have a good support group who knows the area in which I am situated. 

Aside from the obvious answer that they are a trade group for real estate agents, and they would not be around for long if they said that using an agent doesn’t make a difference, here are a few reasons, which NAR acknowledges as not being factored in to their finding:- Lower priced properties are more likely to FSBO (e.g. commission costs are high relative to price, agents aren’t as interested in selling low prices homes).- Rural homes are 3x more likely to FSBO than urban homes.

Depending on where the property is and how solid your trades are, this might be a pretty tough deal to do with loans.   

@Joshua Biondi Do you have other investors, trades people, or real estate professionals that you network with?

If you could find work in this environment, maybe a builder....where you will meet all the trades...or a city code inspector....so same thing you meet all the trades.Otherwise maybe working in a supply store where you also could meet all the trades.Another alternative is a project manager for commercial construction...that's still moving strong here.Lending I would think would be super tough right now. 

Then when they have to finally evict, all the months of being the nice guy goes down the drain anyway because now the tenant expects no consequences and asks the landlord how they could be such a mean, horrible person.Oh!

I do have a very good HVAC and plumbing contractor with many relationships with the other trades which makes it more enticing to me.

In learning any trade, art, craft, or skill, it's pleasant to have people to cheer you on.

The trade off is that the funds are essentially off-limits until such time as you retire.A SDIRA is simply a means of investing differently and having the choice to diversify out of stocks and into something you know such as real estate.