@Seth Lacey I prefer the Southeast or Southwest as I think most sane people are moving away from bad weather, too much regulation, and too much taxation.

It really comes down to your personal preference of how much you need the face-to-face interaction, maybe video call may do for you.

The total building may be 3,000 square feet, but the individual units will of course be smaller (plus there are common spaces).I also wouldn’t totally rely on the city assessor’s records for square footage. 

There is no capacity for making contributions to an IRA in-kind, and the IRS certainly has no interest in trying to properly attribute value to an individual's services as contributions - so much room for mis-interpretation and malfeasance....

SD is only related to individual return, and you will get that no matter what, unless you itemize deduct in you personal return. 

Thus the functionality of following your chosen individuals and making extensive use of setting up keyword alerts with words or terms such as course, workshop, event, coaching, mentorship, analysis tools, multifamily real estate syndicator and the like.

I have looked out of state and while the market pricing is more reasonable, I prefer to have something I can drive too.

Preferably.

How much work are you willing to do, etc, etc...My two cents; I prefer to be leveraged and want to use the velocity of money to my advantage.

We have several low income and/or elderly tenants who prefer to pay by check/money order and mail it to us.