I'm full time employed, so being hands on is kind of tough...  

The factory is on the west side and there is plenty of employment opportunity on that side of the city.

I am self employed and looking to invest in rental property In El Paso, Texas.

Being self employed I'm not actively searching for another deal, but I'm keeping some dry powder just incase. 

I'm willing to guess that the bulk of your fee was not so much in tax prep (although it could have been), but was mostly "cleaning up my books".Cleaning up the mistakes in a QuickBooks file can easily add several hundred dollars to your year end bill.My fee structure is like this (and is similar to many CPAs in my area who are also self employed and work out of their homes.  

If so, do you think buy and hold investing would be more or less cumbersome than using the SDIRA for other RE activity, (flipping, lending, etc), which seem to have their own concerns.....Unrelated Business Income Tax, self-employment tax.I'd appreciate any feedback on your recommendations as to how to best utilize these IRA funds within REI. 

It was so clogged, the opening was the size of a quarter!  

 (1) is not a given and end-to-end from sender to receiver, using an AIO printer on both ends will not employ IP but RS232 and there's no store-forward at ether end.(2) That's ideal and the inflight(SSL) is the easy part. 

As for financing you might look at HUD FHA multifamily loans if the loan size is large enough.

This person says their leaking toilet used 90,000 gallons in 4 weeks(similar to your size spike).https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?