As for the guts, new plumbing, hvac, & windows are another way to inject some value. 

The new mayor seems to have injected a lot of optimism as well.

To do so would be injecting value into the IRA and akin to undocumented contributions to the IRA.The IRA could not purchase your tractor from you and you may not be the one doing the mowing under any arrangement.For you to run cattle on the land would also potentially create issues. 

The severity of the 2008 downturn occurred because lenders were injecting a huge amount of capital into the housing market. 

Abad, let me know if you want a cash injection partner or someone to wholesale the deal to.

Couple reasons:1) More limited financing options.2) More limited use and structure for the deals.3) Finally, if you have to inject extra cash into the property for whatever reason (manage an economic downturn or natural disaster, for instance), it's going to be trickier using an SDIRA.Syndications and private lending protect you from much of the property management nuance.

Yes the city of Kansas City in its infinite wisdom required trees to be planted or usually planted them - they got a great deal on trees that grow big, and do it fast and has heaving and cracking driveways and sidewalks all over the city and most of them drop spiny balls all over the place that cause other problems.You should be able to get a tree removed for way less than $10k.You could also epoxy inject and seal if its just cracks, but if it is uneven you might need to do something else. 

Any additional return is generated by the property itself and remains the same regardless of how much cash is injected in the form of dead equity.

This is why central banks act as lenders of last resort and governments provide deposit insurance and equity injections.

I'd buy 2 that don't need huge cash rehab injections right after purchase.