Sounds like you're focused on apartments.

In one breathe you do not want to be a sponsor or managing member but in another you are not wanting to be a passive investor in a larger syndicate.It sounds like you do not want to to work for the yield a sponsor gets but want more return than a passive investor gets as standard investing in a syndicate.Sounds like you are looking more for a joint venture arrangement.Brian Burke is out that way and a member on here and he does large multifamily syndicates.

I would really like to start flipping Instead of renting it sounds like you have to have a lot of houses just to make a little moneyADVICE PLEASE

I want to do a fix and flip on SFH and looking for ways to get private money, lending from someone ROTH IRA sound like it would benefit both me and the person.  

It seems shady and sounds eerily similar to a form of bid rigging.

Hope my questions don't sound dumb, but I gotta start somewhere, right??

I have a lot to learn to get that stage and this will be first of many posts and thank you BP for giving me a platform to better understand this industry!

That sounds pretty risky.There's no reason for you to get any loans for him.  

It sounds like you want to also have the proceeds of the deal available to you also which is another reason to not go the self directed Ira route. 

Sounds great @Rogelio Martinez!