@Steve Meyers I’ve been running this with some success with a local cincinnati agent on 2+ units and nationally with a commercial broker for shopping centers.

Notion's definitely a good alternative but once you go past hundreds of units, I think Appfolio or Rentvine is more fitting.

I would like to start close to home as I plan to self manage the rental side of it.

So choose wisely and good luck I like the passive nature myself of boat and RV storage.

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Ideally this would be a multi-family property that I can live in and rent out the other units.

Getting into these properties as a non occupant coborrower (all the money invested to get in was mine) was a less cash heavy way to get into the properties versus as an investor.I already have great equity in these properties and prices continue to up.Sounds like, so far, the consensus is to sell the properties and roll the money into other non-condo units.

We use Appfolio for our long term, but I think you need a minimum of 100 units now, which is sad.

If you had $50K in a Self direct IRA how would you leverage that to yield short and long term dividends?