My wife and I plan to move to a bigger house next year and I'm undecided whether to sell the townhouse, invest the proceeds in a syndication or keep the townhouse as a rental and self manage.

Learned how to cut/copy/paste and now I'm super charged and very confident utilizing all the calculators.

Is anyone working with  Self Directed IRAs?

The reason for this actually goes into some of the other common factors.At the moment I own my primary residence and 4 rental properties with 10 total units, putting me dead center in mom and pop territory.They Are Self FundedMom and pop investors in general fund their real estate acquisitions using their own money.

It is about 10 mins away from where i live and would be self managed. 

That is where you can establish a solid ARV, maybe go to a real estate investor meeting as soon as you are able because as the others have said, you should not have much confidence in what tools like Zillow give for the data.

I am a 20 year old with a passion for real estate investing and want to know where would you be if you had started at age 20 and what would you say to your younger self to make them take the leap??

I’m self employed, and looking to purchase my first rental in Mid Michigan.

That gave me confidence to do the deal.

I renovated the live-in before I rented it, so very low hassle- permitted me to self-manage from a distance.