More like a long term corporate bond.

Keep creating those bonds and making sure that you maintain the healthy ones.

Quote from @Jasmine Bond: Hey Paul,Hang in there.

Pooling funds with other investors allows access to larger properties, offering potential cost efficiencies such as lower per-unit expenses, professional management services, and increased purchasing power for property improvements.Diversification: Multifamily syndication provides an opportunity to diversify your investment portfolio beyond traditional assets like stocks and bonds.

If you haven't used them before, make sure to vet them thoroughly and check with their references as well as making sure they are licensed, insured and bonded (depending on the state your in). 

Real Estate is part of your overall investment portfolio, just as cash, bonds, annuities, and all the like. 

you can make potential tenants answer questionnaire about waste practices and then put in appropriate clauses in your lease. if they are going to generate haz wastem you could require a bond or L/C. that should cause the more careless to look someplace else. 

I know that performing notes are the way for a newbie to cut his teeth in the industry , but i am lost at where to start

With conventional IRA you can only invest in stocks, bonds and mutual funds, where most of us have very little or no control.

The reason I ask is that there are many financial advisors that will naturally want to steer your investing towards investments that they know and understand best (stocks, bonds, ETF's or REIT's).