I agree that I am bullish on this taking the PHX market to the next level.

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I have purchased an off-market property from an investor who now wants to sell the rest of his portfolio.

It is still a seller's market in many geographic locations, so you can ask potential buyers for an extended closing period and/or with options to extend the closing period. 

The workshop shows how SDIRA owners can earn double-digit returns by owning real estate as a bank. 

We are not familiar with any of these markets, nor do we have anyone trustworthy there, or a real estate agent.Our approach would be both rental and house flipping.

Context: My wife is in real estate annd we anre in the Houston market.  

It would be a good idea to assess your tolerance to risk and then plan something like that, but using a heloc is going to be around 9-11% in this market so to pay something off with lower interest rate to borrow more might not make much sense.

I'm in the Tampa market.  

Send me a PM and I'll send you a couple of examples of what is on the market outside of Atlanta so you can run your numbers and see if that fits.