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Rental income is not subject to self-employment taxes so you'll pay just ordinary income taxes on the net income. 

Anyone have any recommendations for home insurance with a non-recourse loan self directed through my IRA?

This is what happened to PDX, among other places.What actually works is to make living and anti-social and self-destructive life as intolerable as you possibly can within the confines of decent behavior, along with a constant offer of a hand up, out of their circumstances. 

My goal is to build passive income, but since I am early in my journey and self-funding my deals I want to keep as much capital as possible. 

I'm not looking to evade paying my taxes, just looking for strategies to optimize my spending and profit within the eyes of the IRS.You are converting passive non-self-employment rental income to a non-passive self-employment income.

This site is great if you are looking to invest into real estate, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, crypto, or tax and legal guidance.

Ideally I would like to self manage, but wouldn’t mind using a PM if it just made way more sense and didn’t cost an outrageous amount.

and in certain areas petty crime can be just as bad as any of the C/D class areas of other cites.But bottom line for me  can self manage A class tenants  maintenance super easy  and appreciation which is where wealth is garnered if your just running a small portfolio like myslef. 

Letting tenants "self certify" is no better than letting a landlord evict using "self certification".