Anthony,Retirement accounts are designed to provide you with the future benefits (at retirement), what you are trying to do is extract benefits from your IRA now, which is against the rules.

Another way is to write a HTML parsing script to extract the data from Realtor.com which has the comprehensive listings. 

I would also not advise making your mother the manager and extracting a management fee.Another consideration is whether your grandmother has capacity to agree to all of this, or if a POA needs to be put in place.Best of luck.

Shaun, Zillow offers data you can extract.

So I extracted the things I liked and was about to log off but I wanted to see what the price was this time. 6 months ago on sale for $997.

Either just keep living where you are living and find a SFR or as suggested find a fixer upper, make it your home, then extract the equity for your first SFR.As pointed out before you do any of this you will have to build up your credit score.Whatever you do make sure after the down payment that you have enough cash to cover any major expenses or vacancies that might arise.So to reiterate.1.

What to do about the carpet--would a regular carpet cleaner be able to clean them and extract the water at the same time, or does this require a restoration company?

I think I need to object to the idea on philosophical grounds.When you extract a late fee it's because the tenant has caused you legal injury because if their failure to pay on time.

It's in their blood to try and extract as much money out of you as possible.

We just want to extract the money from the home to pay down some debts and make life a little easier for the next year.Banks are not an option.