But you will never fully get a feel for it, unless you actually step foot into that neighborhood. 

If something goes wrong and you lose that investment, you may be so over-leveraged that it impacts your primary home.I never recommend borrowing money (from equity, friends, or relatives) to borrow money through a mortgage.

There are some areas that will never cash flow, rather where you will get a return on your money is through appreciation when you sell.

I have never heard of any state where you cannot invest with a SDIRA account. 

I have a suggest or 2 on sources if you want to PM me.  

I never dealt with a private lender before so im not entirely sure how they operate. 

@Demitri Blanco, like most markets, sourcing and acquiring a cash-flow or break-even turnkey LTR or small multifamily property in metro Atlanta will be tricky unless you intend to put down 30%—40%.

So if you're trying to learn ten, 15 markets, you're never going to reach critical mass in a market where you can actually start winning deals, knowing the market and so on and so forth.

This way my average becomes less than 7 days per stay.At the end of the year I assume to use the short term rental loophole I need to provide Airbnb proof that I averaged 7 days or less.

They ask for upfront money something that I never done