Hi Henry, There are a number of potential issues here.First, you should be very careful about combining the properties into one (1) entity as you might unintentionally create a prohibited transaction by combining personal funds with retirement account funds. 

And lastly I could who-tail it (a combination of wholesale & retail) where I sell it AS/IS to an end buyer; however I finding the ideal buyer under this scenario could take some time and I am wanting to move FAST on this one!

Anything to make their job easier and faster.This one should rent for 1.2% of purchase price plus rehab.For both properties we are getting all new appliances to modernize them and reduce chance of repairs.So that's it, we now need to finish the work in the next week and get them rented out.

I see a lot of different little tractor / backhoe combinations.

This can either put more money in your pocket, help to spruce up the property or allow you to add to your reserves (or a combination of all 3).

wouldn't landscape rock be a better solution you can always combine them with pavers  The artificial grass is expensive and gets extremely hot .

@Kyle Seidel - start with getting a market report from Airdna.co They scrape all the public info from Airbnb and combine it into a nice report.

If you want to accumulate a large portfolio of income properties, do you want to buy short term vacation rentals, do you want to flip, house hack, a combination of them all? 

As such the bricks are less dense and more porous than modern brick (which is compressed and fired at higher temperature) and absorbs more water.  

I am excited, enthusiastic, and hopelessly clueless.. a terrible combination.