This might be a no brainer, but here goes anyway.As a beginner is it ever too early to begin visiting properties to gain some exposure and experience?  

Could your RE business use the exposure?

This gave me the exposure to all aspects of a development deal on multiple larger ground up development deals.Search for companies in your local area: google search, look for ads that are selling or renting new projects and identify the developer, read news of company announcements, and most importantly, build your networks.

The more units you have, the more spread out amongst those tenants your monthly bills will be effectively reducing your exposure anytime you have a vacancy.

It hedges the bank's exposure. 

Fortunately, this gave us a lot of exposure to different real estate markets.Right now we are currently self employed as online resellers, and have been doing that since 2013.  

May not need to be an IRA specialist, as this tax applies to any tax-exempt entity.The UDFI exposure may not poison the deal entirely, but it will take a bite out of your return depending on what amount of leverage is used.You also need to ensure that you are not in any way putting a guarantee on the debt personally.

There is some great advice here for increasing your exposure to folks who know what they are doing, so keep us posted about how things turn out for you. 

I don't think it's a good idea to put a customer in a position of greater risk exposures.

To me, it seems like, putting your money into the deal is a waste of exposure and time to make a couple extra thousand bucks.