I guess this is like a which comes first, the chicken or the egg. 

Tougher to flip but not impossible, the renovation costs on some of the older structures eat into profit. 

There are ways to invest in other types of securities other than stocks in a Roth, such as using a self directed IRA, but these strategies are more complicated and probably not advised unless you know what you are doing and have a nest egg saved up. 

Our concern is that if something bad were to happen to one property and we have multiple properties under that same LLC that we run the risk of one bad egg ruining a whole batch of properties.

You could try a private money lender but they’d still probably require a down payment and the interest would be much higher, definitely would eat into your bottom line. 

One roommate may eat another's food or may have guests there all the time.

Something unforseen could eat up your profit real fast.

They are: read 10% of a book per day, workout 5 times a week, wake up at 6am each day, look at two deals per day, do not eat out (bad habit lol), put $10 a day away into stocks, listen to 20 minutes of a podcast, post on BP Forums 4 times a week, post on social media 4 times per week, and on average do 30 dials/texts per day to wholesale leads.

These were all sourced pre-CV19, so eat the fish and spit out the bones.Ridge Lending All in One, first position HELOCAFCU does 80% LTV on NOO.

And still eat that is.