A lot of times the lender offering the best rate up front will not care about meeting your contract deadlines or protecting your earnest money or even actually closing the deal.

If a buyer doesnt want to pay an agent and goes directly to the seller, their interests are not protected.

That way you can pay back the line of credit and reuse it. 18 months seems like awhile but anything can happen in that span of timeI do have some cashes around 60k just for protection.

The more appropriate question is, "Will a property in a tax-deferred IRA help you protect and grow that IRA better than investing the IRA in something else like stocks or funds?".   

That and the equal protection clause that follows it.

We have a city ordinance that makes income source a protected class, aka you can't say No Section 8, but it also means you can't say ONLY Section 8.

As far as why I was considering an LLC - it seems like there's two camps, those who think it's a necessity for legal protection, especially as you grow in unit count, and those who think it's mainly a waste of time and money.

I see how he views and values investor funds, talks about protecting those investor monies (walking away from deals I think are good but are admittedly more risky), and the consistency in this behavior from the time I have known him shows me that he is not someone who takes his role as syndicator lightly.

@Kyle Weinapple Search this forum for "LLC insurance asset protection"You will find dozens of prior threads where this topic has been debated to death. 

Tenant protection issues - We’re in CA and introduction of limits on rent increases so want to be sure that we have the lease structured so the tenant reverts to a market rate rent at the end of the 3 year period or moves out if unwilling to pay that rate.I’m struggling with the 3 year lease being long, I don’t think I could enter an indefinite (til death) lease.Another thought what if one spouse dies and the survivor remarries a younger person?