As can be gathered from my profile, I am looking to enhance future retirement income. 

I have been blessed with some solid family connections in these areas, but I am open to expanding and enhancing my network.

You have come to right place to enhance and expand your real estate career.  

The goal being that by enhancing the convenience to your residents, you can gradually raise rents on the residential doors.  

In all reality I can put money into the stock market, buy some tax dererred munis or purchase more properties and put them in my rental portfolio to enhance my passive income.

Specialties: Review of Real Estate to enhance values, Property Tax assessment review, Land divisions to enhance values, BPO - Broker Price Opinion services.

It was certainly life enhancing to find the Bigger Pockets podcast, and equally so to find they had a website as well!  

The opportunity is to drive NOI higher, which directly enhances the value of the complex, while 1-4 unit properties don't create value in relation to NOI.

This discussion would be greatly enhanced by agents with wholesaling complaints chiming in with exactly how they would do this deal....James said if he listed the property his buyer could do what the OP did.  

They do not provide meaningful oversight or guidance with respect to tax code compliance.A checkbook IRA LLC is an enhancement on the above structure that is generally more time and cost efficient for investors with a more diverse portfolio.