The meetings have been sporadic lately but are becoming regular again, with the next meeting on the evening of Tuesday, March 10. 

Contribute to a regular IRA as non deductible contribution as a backdoor to a ROTH.

If he's not expected to be able to pay much (or regularly), you might find yourself in the latter category.I don't know if you have an accountant now, but you probably do want to at least run it by one.

I am a firm believer that if you are investing in real estate directly, versus a passive model, you need to be doing site visits regularly, and being somewhere you want to go, especially if this is a side hustle, makes it that much easier.I do agree with @Derek Harris that, why not invest in both, if possible. 

By any chance is anyone having any meets ups regularly that I can attend.

I was holding them regularly until the Carona struck.

I wish I could find stuff like that on a regular.

Hi @Cory Clay.Thanks for posting in the forums.However, we do not allow self-promotion, and posts looking for real estate agents tend to generate a lot of self-promotion from the agents on the site.We've locked this thread so it doesn't get filled with these posts, but we're not going to leave you high and dry!

It seems like hard money is your best bet if you can qualify for a regular loan after I don’t see why not.

@Rudy TateI just got this from fundrise:Fundrise Advisors, in our capacity as Manager of the eREITs and eFunds, has determined that it is necessary at this time to suspend the processing and fulfillment of redemption requests.While under normal market conditions, we seek to provide investors with the ability to redeem their investments on a regular basis, during times of financial crisis or extreme uncertainty, it is absolutely critical that we suspend redemptions in order to protect the interests of all our investors.As Manager, we have an obligation to make decisions based upon what is best for the entire Fundrise investor community and must always put the priorities of the whole above any one individual.Fundamentally, Fundrise investors own real property, which is simply not liquid.