@Oscar MenesesMy recommendation is to hire an employee in the area you are investing, attempting to manage from outside the country when you’re renovating properties is a Herculean effort and poses signficant risk.

Chances are if you join a team, you will be doing one specific wheel and getting paid like an employee, vs being a business owner. 

Cheap - tries to convince the minimum wage employee at the museum that their 12 year old is really 5.

Just wondering if there is any other places beside small credit unions to get a good deal, my state employees credit union offers heloc at 4.5 rate which is good but therer monthly payments for heloc is for every $1000 used its $12 a month, so 50k heloc would be 600 a month, didnt know if this was good or not for monthly payments or us there cheaper one out there.

Use HAR to get tax rates for your target house, then calculate the rate based on the purchase price, not the previous value from the current owner's last assessment.

And they have the proper worker's comp coverage as employees.

I have found the employees at the tax dept very informative and happy to answer any questions and walk you through the process if needed. 

They are generally very good employees, probably management and/or highly skilled.

Initially, my dream was to open my own engineering consulting firm and a minimum have 10 employees.

In the Solo 401(k), it needs to be an owner-only business format, and you cannot have any non-owner employees in any business you control.It sounds like a self-directed IRA is the only plan available to you in your situation, and it is a great option.