Too many people pay $30k for a guru to tell them everything, but if you can "sacrifice" $10-$20k of potential profit, you will have real-world experience, relationships AND the ability to go to private money or bank financing with and actual track record.

How do they actually make the trip from point A to point B?  

In our project actuals there was  ~8K in costs that would not have occurred if we did not have to clean-up after the pets.

I looked up the tax records and it's actually held by an investment LLC out in Cali.

Once you have significant capital in qualified retirement funds that you can actually do things like hard money lending or buying properties, then a self-directed plan makes sense.

She actually screamed at my father in front of other tenants a few days ago. 

You need to be sure the home is actually live able/occupied though or you may have bought yourself a  rehab project and there is often a redemption period so you don't want to be rehabbing a trailer on a property that someone can redeem.

Actually close on the deals then put them on the mls.

That said, I recently turned over a unit with a tenant inside, because my tenant was very clean, had decorated beautifully, and kept the place spotless, and I think her decor actually helped the process, and she was amenable to the process because she had bought a house and was moving to her first home. 

When it came time to actually buy the property we ran into a road block.