You want to properly classify transactions such as Contributions/distributions if they are between the entity and the owner itself.If the entities are not direct owners, you have have a Due to / Due From to properly keep track of money owed between the entities.Best of luck!

However, you cannot use IRA funds directly in the transaction you are describing. 

if your doing a senior project I would suspect your best and most cost effective landing solution is going to be a local community bank that loves real estate.. in my experience most will want 50% down on the dirt and a ton of experience and a really strong balance sheet.Myself I always pay cash for the dirt this makes finding a lending partner much easier.

An interesting fact about flipping in CA -- effective July of this year, investors are required to disclose their contractor name and contact information.

If the EMD is higher than you typically use, you could always use a transactional funder like myself.

The locations I am looking at (suburbs reasonably far from downtown and the Tech Center) have seen 3 total transactions in the last year.

Additionally, educate yourself on disqualified persons and prohibited transactions.  

I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but you don’t have to sell (and incur transaction costs, potentially realize a taxable event, etc.) to generate liquidity.

LMHA gets a staff of a couple dozen people and a big budget to be bureaucratic, the tenant gets cost effective safe housing, and we get steady rent checks)Does anyone else have these issues???

And thankfully, by the time I needed to execute on those options and actually complete the purchase of the leased properties, I had developed some private lender relationships that allowed me to complete those 3 transactions and several more thereafter.