The national banks have certain ways of doing things and a traditional mortgage in your name is easy and fast. 

As a Real Estate Broker in Sacramento, Ca  I have an 89 step marketing plan I use to sell not only my flips, but traditional real estate I handle for other home sellers.

8.What appeal does modern look architecture such the project above has locally compared to traditional architecture such RTown Lane project at Kirkwood ave?

Currently 5% of my accounts are 'cash' and 95% are Traditional IRA's.  

It seems that out of state note investing is a little more feasible than traditional out of state investing such as flips and buy/hold strategy.

Not only can I get you market properties as a traditional Realtor can, we also wholesale plenty of off market non-mls properties that you may be interested in. 

You can't advertise or sell something you don't own.So the traditional way to wholesale(find a discounted property,get it under contract and market it to a cash buyer)is starting to get the attention of state regulators especially in California,Ohio and Florida and fines and jail time are being issued to those who are marketing/selling properties they don't own without a license.So unless you can find a way to market your contact without marketing the property itself which isn't against the law you'll need to either get your RE license or find another REI strategy.

When you become in bankable in a traditional financing model, you have to start to think creatively!

When they realize what a pain it is to sell a plex the traditional route, they will probably come back to ya.Concern #2 is buying with someone your not married to.  

A traditional renters policy probably does not cover the horse exposure.