Seller financing may be the only method that you could get away with no hard credit check.

I will trade $100/month for rent on time/every time, care of my property, long term occupancy and no phone calls all day long. 

We followed the Dave Rasmey method pretty rigorously up to step 4 (have an emergency fund and pay off all consumer debt.)

I wanted to ask if anyone had any experience in the following methods of finding deals:- Foreclosure- Probate- Short sales / pre-foreclosureAny pro's & con's of searching this way?

That adds to the profityou don't have to spend money to get the property ready to sell when you sell itif you hold on to a rental long enough, you need to put money in to it to sell itthe ROE (return on equity) goes down over time and it would be more profitable to take profits and trade up if you can continue to buy properties under market value rather than keep the money in the same property for too long.

I'm lost by your question but you want to focus on the income method to determine value.

If you aren't willing to trade housing for cocaine are you really an investor?

Sure Yusuf, that's a very tried and true method of real estate investing that has done wonders for a lot of people.

I want to leave the method ( flip, brrrr, buy and hold, ect...) open to the specific property and circumstances. 

I want to make sure I have current info.As the title said I am looking for the best method of converting my 401K for Real Estate investing, SDIRA LLC, Texas SDIRA Series LLC or Solo 401K.From everything I have read I am leaning toward the Series LLC but it seems the Solo 401K has some advantages although I am not sure about liability protection.