Basically your IRA can buy a piece of real estate and as long as it its used exclusively for investment purposes, your IRA would receive all rental income to grow your IRA.I would be happy to connect and answer any questions you may have. 

.#1 - exclusion of the gain.

They may take the listing to have a sign in the yard and some exposure, but every newspaper ad/minute spent is a gamble for them.

Seems to me like a good rental if its low maintenance but if you want the cash now to for other investments make sure to get it before the capital gains exclusion expires.

We attend an REIA where another member has inquired about renting properties from us - he would sign a lease, pay market rent, etc but he would be using it to run exclusively as an AirBNB.

For off-market commercial deals, it's very common for there not to be a buyer broker involved, and if there is one involved, it's common for the buyer to be paying for it out-of-pocket.After the CRE broker gets the listing agreement, they will shop it directly to their exclusive list of investors.

It just seems like these mentors making money on their exclusive groups instead of actually doing deals. 

It is a good idea to:Spur them into action to redeem; and/orLegally gain official possession of the property in case there might ever be some dispute about whether you were physically in exclusive and continuous possession.

Option - In legal language, a real estate option is an agreement that grants the party owning the option, the optionee, the exclusive, unrestricted, and irrevocable right to purchase property from the party selling the option, the optionor, during the specified period of time that the option is in effect.I'm wondering if it is possible to control a house using an option to purchase in order to renovate the property (fix and flip) without actually buying the assett with a HML. 

Recently another BP member was having issues with their agent because they were trying to give offers at 80-90% of value and the agent said they were low balling and demanded a $5000 retainer (or something), plus that they sign an exclusive contract (which I understand is more normal than when I last bought).