My question is, how do you normally perform your market research or nationwide market research?

A SDIRA follows all the same rules and a normal IRA or Roth IRA would. 

Overall, the Central Texas housing market is beginning to normalize to more stable market conditions.Here are the basic stats on single-family homes sales for February 2017 for the City of Austin and the Greater Austin Area:Below are excerpts of from the press release from the Austin Board of REALTORS®.The February 2017 Central Texas Housing Market Report....showed a slowdown in single-family home sales growth throughout the Austin Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in February 2017, indicating that the Central Texas housing market is beginning to normalize to more stable market conditions.From Brandy Guthrie, 2017 President of the Austin Board of REALTORS®:“The Central Texas housing market is just now beginning to catch up to itself after years of unprecedented sales growth.

I just found out the cause of my $700 bill (it's normally $300, and I split it with my tenant next door).

I am normally obsessive about order in the kitchen, especially around the stove.  

I like that having them I don't feel obligated to first plumber that walks in at 10pm at night with his 5x normal price schedule in my tenant's hour of need.

Is it normal for a money lender to charge 5% interest a YEAR!

Note that this is also what you would normally pay as a W-2 employee through Social Security and Medicare and you normally pay this as 7.65% of your wages withheld from your paycheck.  

I have a lot of trade contacts, but the beginning steps that you wouldn't normally go trough with a flip are unknown to me.Any help would be appreciated.

Normally that's not a big concern, IF you've got ALL your deposit back (which you won't have)!