In order to have checkbook control, the IRA account will need to be at a trust company that will allow the IRA to invest in an LLC (where you will be the manager and your IRA will be member - an as manager you will have checkbook access to the LLC bank account).

This will allow you to purchase properties with your HELOC and have the ability to access the equity quickly to pay off the HELOC.

Since the product is still so new, they've been granting beta testers free access to the product's functionality in exchange for feedback and bug reports.

Accessibility features in the bathrooms?

This makes the home more accessible to a wider range of buyers, increasing its marketability and potential sale price.

Find out if there is a wall with convenient access to plumbing drains. and if that area could work as a kitchen.

I Thought you had to have the tax deed before you could access the property?  

(And possibly even on the clock.)Yes, I know very well that that some CPAs brag about being accessible and always answering their phone.

They are saying it'll report "crimes at a national level like national sex offender list" but that they can't access county or state level offenses.

If you choose Oakland, I would research landlord tenant laws here and have access to an attorney here - it has heavily pro-tenant laws and the lower priced homes are in high crime areas.