It's the tradition that Johnson buys steak nachos for everyone.

Several ways to do that.If the mobile home is new enough, you can finance it through a traditional company, like 21st Mortgage and others.

The seminars I have gone to recommend transferring your traditional IRA funds to a Roth which costs you taxes now but shelters your profits in the Roth.  

Option A: live with family for free until we have new job(s) locked down, then move into real estate once we have a salary for a traditional mortgageOption B: rent a cheap apartment in GR to get our bearings in the city while looking for jobs, and learning more about the REI/rental marketplace by living thereOption C: explore creative funding options to speed up the purchase of our first investment property, which will help fund the purchase of our own homeOption D: look for a 2-unit to live in, fix, and rent before we purchase a larger home? 

Have you ever had a pipe burst from freezing.For those of you installing PEX, do you run it using a manifold system or is it more of a traditional branch system?

They came to you because they didn't fit the traditional mold.

I was therefore able to regroup, start my drywall and do windows while the newly applied mud was drying.  

You can't do any of the things in a traditional wall street firm held IRA that you can't in a SD IRA.

Unless I had occupancy of 40% or more, I would not make more than renting it out traditionally.

I also believe that creative finance techniques are what set apart investors instead of using traditional bank financing.