The IRA should be paying somebody else for those services and not receiving them from you for "free".

Feel free to share what’s most important to you and any other factors that influence your decision-making process.

Looking to start a cashflow portfolio with multi-tenant properties.Please feel free to suggest other places too.

Local real estate investment groups or meetups can be a good resource for recommendations.If you need specific lender referrals or have any other questions, feel free to PM me.

Can't you perform better buying 50 units in a market that perhaps has a higher cost of entry but due to better fundamentals experiences significant appreciation?   

If you haven't tried this yet I'd recommend playing around with some of the BiggerPockets calculators here https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators If you have a pro account you can use the calculators as much as you'd like, if you have a free account you do get a few free uses of the calculators!

Feel free to PM me if I can help.

Also recognize that construction costs will be 2-3x more expensive in this area than they were in Pittsburgh so be careful and make sure to understand pricing before going into a rehab. 

What I paid for it + the cost of the improvements (~$200k)2.

truepeoplesearch.com is free and decent.Paid services are definitely going to be better.