If you want to network or ask specific questions about your local market, go to your local real estate forum and connect with investors from your area: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/86-local-real-estate-networking5.

Obviously the market is pretty tricky right now and need to be even more conservative with projecting numbers.

We are committed to offering market competitive pricing by taking the entirety of the JPMorgan Chase & Co. relationship into account.

I'd love to connect and talk more about the market out here if you'd like. 

After closing, we discovered that for about 5-6 of the properties, tenants had been granted "sweetheart leases", well below market rates, extending through 2027 and beyond.

I didn't have control over the ARV figure (the market controls that) and I found that if I tried negotiating a lower rate/points with my private lender they would find other places to invest their money.

I got this property at the right time, it was on the market for $699,000.00, seller needed to sell, I offered $550,000.00 after they cut to $650,000.00 and we agreed on $600,000.00.

Your question is more market specific.

I am in the market for a custodian for a self-directed IRA for real estate investing.

With 15% in my market you are looking at you could probably buy two properties off the bat and they should cashflow you conservatively 2k a month, could be up to 3k.