Hello,I recently transferred my traditional IRA into a SDIRA / checkbook LLC account and am working on closing on my 1st investment property.

There are dozens of other benefits including a free SDIRA account to invest in real estate through a 401(k) or IRA, individual and group coaching, VIP access to off market deals, referral partner status,etc.

At this time I do not have any money in an IRA its in an account provided by my employer.

Have you considered using a self-directed IRA to invest rather than cashing it out? 

A real estate business can also potentially generate a SOLO IRA or something like that. 

Our team has been pounding the pulpit for five years about how favorable our tax brackets are and helping clients conduct moves such as IRA to ROTH IRA conversions in order to take advantage of the current tax deal of our lifetime.

However, nearing retirement, with our past experience in mind, we decided to try it again, this time just rehabbing one house to flip.So, I set up a self-directed IRA so we could use the retirement money we had left after the recession, and bought a foreclosure house that needed a lot work.

Absolutely you can, I rolled over my IRA into a fund making double-digit returns. 

On the flipside, I do have a self-directed IRA that is in BTC that is funded by one of my properties. 

I moved all of her old retirement money into a self directed IRA/Solo 401K and started putting her money to work through real estate lends.