What confuses me is when I brought the topic up in a military landlord page tons of people recommended investing in that market.

It would help you to review IRS prohibited transactions rules:https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/retirement-topics-prohibited-transactions

@Kamal Khetrapal   opportunitydb.com has many OZ related topics and Ashley talks regularly on the podcast.

Talk to a WA housing attorney- I'm fairly sure that someone is required to have a real estate brokers license to manage a property in WA state for money.Here's another thread where it came up:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/21/topics/166986-washington-state-property-management-license Also- normally your PM would send YOU one for rents.

Account ClosedRead a book on the topic first!

2. use the 'search' function to find topics, areas and people of interest.

I am no expert on syndication but there is tons of information on the topic here in the BP forums. 

See my post towards the end of this BP topic: First Multi Family walkthrough today.

But the short, I'm in the cannabis industry in Colorado and concerned big/local banks will deny me a loan. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/22/topics/801783-colorado-cannabis-industry-and-getting-approved

I'm specifically hoping to gear this topic towards dealing with HOA's from a househacking perspective for those starting out.