My professional career has been tax compliance so far and I want to get established and confident in taking on legal issues more than I have done so far. 

I have a build it from the foundation mentality one brick at a time until you have an empire mentality and strive to meet a mentor to assist me in taking the first steps toward investing in my niche market.

I'd like to repeat, I am NOT interested in taking funds OUT of my IRA, I wish to purchase within my IRA.Thank you!

It does not matter what your opinion of your dog is to a landlord it is simply a risk they are not interested in taking.

You sound like a good landlord and neighbor with common sense and regard to other's property.I'm sure if it had been more costly it would have been an insurance claim or adjusted between both parties as to responsibility.. but good job in taking charge.

Real Estate will always be here and though I certainly believe in taking action, you need to make sure your first action is with a purpose.  

Be sure to check that the water intake and output hoses are properly connected.

Though I agree interest is a necessary evil to getting started, I firmly believe that I can do better with that money than the bank. 1031 | Trading up - Cash in, take the profits and continue to grow the business.

It should not cost you more than $1M to remodel and add units to the building, but even then I doubt that the needed rents could be attained as they would need to average out at about $3,300.00 per unit per month.This might not even make sense right in the middel of SanFrancisco, but then again.......................................................This is nothing I would be interested in taking on since there are so many other ready made cash flowing multi units out there to find for that price point.

Most hard money lenders aren't interested in taking on projects worth less than around $75k...