If you can cut your teeth by hooking up with some local Oahu investors, you can make some cash, learn a ton, and probably find a deal or two near you.

You are limited to the index funds that they provide which consist basically of the domestic market index, international index, bonds and fixed income.  

Congrats what a great one to cut your teeth on. 28k and 770.00 a month thats a real nice ROI.

Simply pass the loan terms along to the tenant buyer inside their wrap or bond for title.

Are you using "Property Damage Surety Bonds" instead of security deposits?

Why not invest passively in 3-4 deals or even more if you do some smaller balance crowdfunding things and then keep the rest in something safe like short-term bonds until you see how the first few deals work out?

If you do not have plans to purchase more income properties, and are seeking a safe place to hoard your cash, find any other investment vehicle (bonds, mutual funds etc.) that pays more that 3-4% and you will be much farther ahead.

Just my thoughts on the article:The article is a decent starting point, but it lacks much of the important details and is missing a very important means to locating private lenders - IRA owners (and 401k for that matter).Many of these IRA holders are soley invested in stocks, bonds and mutual funds which have been hammered over the last few years.

Those rates are well below the yield on government bonds of the same duration,,,that just doesn't make senseandy

Start with SFRs and cut your teeth there.