Join the Greater Cincinnati Real Estate Investors FB group and participate there.  

When your MAGI exceeds $150k, you can no longer take any passive loss.To get around the PAL rules, you can qualify as a real estate professional and materially participate in your rentals.

Admittedly, there are voucher participants with health and wellness issues that have limited their situation, but those cases can be handled in a different way as well.Stepping down of my soapbox... thanks for the conversation about it!

Anyone participating in regular meetups?

YOu can look for non-performing notes, 2nds, be a lender, participate passively, etc.The landlord and rehabber are just the routes that most people take.

Looking to start a possible meetup and see if anyone's out there to possibly participate.

Conrad, look up Brew City REI Club if you are interested in participating--it is a private, give and take, invitation only real estate club of active local investors obsessed with real estate in Wisconsin and charitable in helping each other succeed.  

I'm currently seeking a realtor to assist with some things , however the two I know have been reluctant to participate. 

@Chad BaileyThe following IRS document sheds more information on the ROBS 401k program. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/robs_guidelines.pdfAlso, here is how the ROBS 401k program works in a nutshell.A new C-corporation is established.Corporation sponsors a new 401k/PSP.The IRA funds are transferred to a new brokerage account opened for the 401k/PSP.The new real-estate corporation issues stock shares to the 401k/PSP for the benefit of the participant.The 401k participant must be an employee of the corporation and he or she may take a reasonable salary.The corporation owner's family members may be employees of the franchise business and receive reasonable compensation for their services.To the extent that the corporation generates profits and elects to distribute those profits to the owners of the business, the percentage of the profits associated with the shares held in the 401k/PSP will flow back to the 401k/PSP brokerage account.

Whereas if we were doing a traditional 1031 exchange where they became the solo owner of a new replacement property, I would not be able to participate as a co-owner and still receive the step-up.