Plus I plan to buy fixers, either using the BRRRR or straight flipping them which could provide an additional challenge going the traditional route.More or less, though ... this is me trying to fumble my way through figuring out what in the world I'm doing!

To further what @Sam Leon was saying, you could also distribute your 401k to a traditional IRA and from there transfer a set amount of funds to an SDIRA. 

Kennesaw State has traditionally been a commuter school, although that has changed in recent years with the addition of some on-campus housing.  

The real benefit for those of us in the retirement planning business is that because the cash value continues to appreciate even though you are taking loans against it, the client can get much more income than if they kept their money in a traditional brokerage account. 2 - 3 times as much after tax income.

I also transferred my traditional holdings both (traditional and Roth) from Schwab to MidlandIRA to invest in RE.

Given a traditional 80/20 loan (no house hacking as we cant move yet, I could place my mom in it perhaps) we could get a $150,000 house in the area may be tough but with diligence we could do it.

Basically they are rejecting more customers than they have traditionally because for our intended purposes it's considered marketing, which is not a permissible use of their data.   

As far as the units go, anything with 5-8 units we would more or less come in with all cash so we wouldn’t have to deal with the financing aspect, while with the 3-4’s we possibly would go the more traditional route with a residential loan.

A traditional mortgage is not an option as I had a student loan get called due while I was still in school that I wasn't aware of and posted negatively on my credit.

In the meantime, I plan to buy and hold as many properties as I can so that I don't have to work after the Army, at least not in the traditional sense!