I think its mostly people not wanting to put time into this outside of their day to day activities.

It's imperative that you pay less attention to outside noise that may burn you out and tune your focus to that the family is trying to achieve.Let's say you can't find deals in the DFW area, then expand your search criteria miles out .

A problem occurred when the servicer tried to stick us with their entire legal bill.We have another situation that just started in which the servicer is telling us that they are retaining outside counsel to review our defense strategy before deciding whether they will let us represent us or have their counsel do so.

Then I moved out to the east coast Hilton head island for a year, then I moved to Southern California and have been living outside San Diego for the last 20 years!

Median price is $1million, but you can find cheaper homes outside of Honolulu

Should I buy outside Sonoma County?

From what I know about IRS rules on SDIRA - is that you cannot combine your cash outside of SDIRA with SDIRA funds to finance a purchase.

Outside of them burning the place down it won’t get worse so collect rent to pay for the turnover.  

That could (again, potentially, based on the deal you find) just be a cost you consider - the cost of doing business.Also, I don't think you should try to buy sooner because of what interest rates might do - that's outside of your control, and no one knows what is going to happen. 

The properties are located in a small town located right outside of a city with a population of 45,000.