I live and invest here and could recommend some agents or property managers and answer any financing questions you might have.

Great recommendations and ideas.

Hi BP Community - does anyone have attorney recommendations that can assist (or prior personal experience) in Wyoming with self-directed IRA LLC formation?

What are the close by states you'd recommend to look?

What I can recommend is that if you are feeling overwhelmed by your total load of responsibility than it may be time for you to start outsourcing.

I highly recommend that any investor in Canada  find a similar database as well. 

Is private capital a recommended route vs conventional borrowing?

Would you still recommend keeping it or would it be better to sell?

Nothing held back for maintenance because the houses they recommend buying are all newly rehabbed, and nothing held back for capital expenses because you should sell them in less than five years and move into multifamily investments so nothing major should break before then. 

You'll want to be able to obtain balances, confirm payments were received, obtain payoff statements, etc.Ask your friend to share the username and password for the servicer's websiteI recommend using a loan servicer to collect your payments and disperse payments each month to the underlying mortgage servicer.