I am a rookie investor hoping to purchase my first property within the next 90 days.Kwanza Hi Kwanza,The first thing you'll need to decide is whether or not you want checkbook control of your self directed IRA. 

I assume that since you're waiting until 59.5 that at least a decent bit is held in retirement accounts and you're hoping to avoid early withdrawal penalties.

I'm hoping for some input on the best way to write up the lease contracts, as that is my next personal assignment.

First off, apologies if this post is too long or has too much information for a first post, I am just trying top get as much put there in hopes it connects with as many people as possible.About me.. 

Hope this helps.

I would recommend Stessa so much more if you could reconcile; hopefully, they will!

While you might not want to lose the tenant, it'll likely wake her up and rethink things

Hope some of this insight could help with your decision if you decide to take the leap! 

Finally from a purely from a cash outlay prospective short term, you could rent a house with roommates and your payment would still probably be Lower than house hacking because rates are so high, over the long period 5-10 years obviously it would cheaper ti buy, hope that makes sense 

Hoping for a resurrection with deregulation & any yet to be announced plans for DC….