Mat Sorensen wrote a book on Self Directed IRA that you can find on Amazon.

I’m sure there strapped financially.

But if your cash strapped then proceed at your own risk, the risk of eating up your returns.Some of the repair costs can be assumed with your deposits if they are caused by your tenants.

Tactical Action - Get the Broker's to talk, threaten to go after Earnest Money, but don't go to the mat over it.

Only protection we ever had was a jock strap & shorts most of our jerseys got ripped off.  

@Mat Fisher Hi! 

Also foster relationships with others so if something comes along when you are strapped for capital, you can still take it down with a partner.

So the whole house needed studded/strapped to put drywall up.

@Mat O'Grady, @Jason Arcuri  Thanks, I appreciate the info. 

It is a geographically strapped area south of San Jose/Silicon Valley, with very limited and poor housing supply coupled with an unpopular local planning agency that is not customer service oriented because of restrictions on population density and water resources, etc.At this point in our lives, we cannot just pick up and move our jobs to another state.