Understand that the realtor has a boss called the broker, where the broker is a good business person they are not going to enjoy their agent or their employee to be able to break listing agreements easily.

I figure the best use of my IRA money is to have it in investments that can easily be made liquid like stocks, that way my IRA can be used as reserves and be invested at the same time.

You'll look to collect about a 10% dp on these properties (sometimes more) when you sell, so you can very easily recoup your 6k marketing costs in one or two houses just from the up front money you're receiving.

In my mind, I already filtered out certain businesses.

I could easily wholesale them but I would rather buy and hold than make a few thousand.

You can easily earn 6-14% return on your money though writing first and/or second mortgages to other investors.Another almost hands-off approach is to partner with an experienced investor - naturally with a proven track-record of success - in your area - either in direct partnership or purchasing into a syndication.  

Relatively well organized and easily digestible information (I am not affiliated with the site in any way, just came across it via Google search).Keep us informed as to your progress and best of luck!

As @Joe Fairless mentioned, reading specific books and of course, listening to podcasts and reading on BP will help you filter out what you gravitate to. 

I don't know about Indianapolis, but 3/1s will rent easily at $575 in all but the worst DFW neighborhoods. 

Most people will find their site rather easily based on search terms but there's always a lot of consumer protection attorneys out there looking to make an easy buck.