Also, what are the benefits and risks of hard money? 

My VA loan benefit helped us at the beginning with 0$ down, so we essentially made a ridiculously awesome ROI (~$20,000 from ~$4,000 improvements). 

You can essentially "Save" rent you would pay anywhere else, and instead get money (in form of principal repayment) from the tenant. few other thing you need to consider though is vacancy rate, property tax, capital expenditures, and if you would need to use property management firms (unless you have the time to find new tenants, deal with their complaints, etc.). 

If so, would you be willing to post a screenshot of your dashboard here (change the numbers if you like) so we can all benefit?

I am a veteran and would like to use my VA Loan benefit to buy a multi-family somewhere in the Michigan/ Indiana area.

There's not much benefit with having a local CPA these days of technology.So you can browse this forum, find who you like and contact privately.

The other benefit of this property is that it comes with Roofstocks rent guarantee for a year where they will pay 90% of the estimated market rent for the property while I'm looking for a tenant with my property manager. 

the tax benefits of eliminating state tax can be monstrous.And @Bill Brandt only thought he was kidding! 

IRS rules are very clear: you can't receive any benefits from your IRA nor can you or any other disqualified person can benefit the IRA in any way.

You get the tax benefits through depreciation.