Your hit rate with wholesaling will be very low, but that's the nature of the beast.

As you said you are currently still employed there, so you can't do it right away until you leave employment there.Second, once you've rolled over, you can setup your SDIRA as a regular account (where fund release has to go via your custodian) or setup a LLC checkbook option, where you can write out a check for your choice of investments.Yes you will have full control over the use of funds in your rolled over SDIRA. 

Consequences of Mother Nature even living in a low elevation state that is in hurricane paths is not an outlandish risk.

My student loan payments are $0, but the regular VA lender I've been working with told me they have to factor as if I'm paying $820/mo!

Yes, you'll probably get some pitches - it comes with the territory - but legitimate meetups focus on providing value first, with networking happening naturally. 

Someone who knows and works the area regularly?  

Premium increases are rippling through the market; the state is also always going to be financially strapped/high tax due to union pension commitments from past generations and the high tax, high services nature of Chicago.I'd highly recommend getting on a plane and driving around before you buy anything there. 

It would be a Wordpress site due to the easy to use nature and all the great plug-in's and widgets available.Regarding SEO, there are some basic products that help but SEO has gotten so complex over the years, you really need to hire a SEO company to set it all up a make it worthwhile.The cost could be exorbitant so it might not be worth the effort.

Nature is not friendly, he said: it's either polar winter up there or you can't breath because of the smoke.

Be sure to explore the tools provided by the BPC, there is a list of top markets that is updated regularly based on a number of criteria.