Title chain is easy to follow anyway.....a few minutes on your state corporations website tells us whose LLC it is.

I also included painful reasons such as not wanting to reach 80 years old and be filled with regret and the possibility of working corporate and not having time to hunt as much as Id like (my passion).

If you consider your portfolio as your corporation, all you really need to do is look at how the world's most successful corporations operate (other than ruthlessly slitting the throats of their competition!).

I would like to supplement my FT corporate income with this method of real estate investing.

FHA and Fannie won't lend to a corporation.

I'm not going to name any big bank names, but when I look through the "ABC Down Payment Assistance" guidelines I see "XYZ Big Bank" logo all over the ABC guidelines.

I would only recommend this strategy to capitalize a business with more than $100K of retirement funds.The operating business must be a C CorpThe corporation sponsors a 401k retirement planYou can rollover funds from an existing tax-deferred IRA or 401k into the new 401kThe 401(k) then uses an Employee Stock Option Purchase to purchase shares of the parent C corporation.  

Corporations will be repatriating overseas funds and expanding, which will be a positive impact over the coming months and even years. 

My question is before I dive in are you allowed to get a traditional personal loan when buying a property through a self directed ira or is it considered a corporation and therefore you need a commercial loan. 

@Kole Kingslien - make sure you or your corporate entity are on the title, otherwise you will have no seasoning and when you go to refinance, the lender will treat it as a purchase.