If anything, the government employee will just shove your appeal to the back of the line.  

(Don't ask me how I know this)If you start to build out crews of contractors and employees as you do more and more, you can do Literly as many as the markets you are in will allow. 

Organization does not wish to hire an employee with property management skills. 

If you are self-employed in some fashion and have no full time employees, then the Solo 401(k) format will provide a much better vehicle for making contributions of up to $54K per year - $18K of which can be done as Roth.

Even if an employee of a bank has money to loan, you still need a phone number to talk to, make arrangement to meet in public. 

Both of us are W-2 employees within 10 years of retirement at 67.  

Plus, in my defense, I was only a part time employee.

Plus, in my defense, I was only a part time employee.

I know this is an old thread but the information posted by @Paul Sandhu on this post (as well as his other postings) is very helpful and has gotten me interested in exploring  STR's for contract employees at the refineries and plants located to the East and South of Houston. 

@Craig CurelopThe qualified first-time home-buyer is up to $10,000.https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/retirement-topics-tax-on-early-distributionsFirst-Time Homebuyer ExpensesDistributions from IRAs to pay for qualified first-time homebuyer expenses may be taken penalty free (IRC Sec. 72(t)(2)(F)).