I eliminated the Struck to County liens that all received 16%:The Vacant land again had decent interest rates, had a large number of liens available, and had the least amount of competition (bids).

Your question is a very important one, as finding great deals is way more than half the battle for successful real estate investment, IMO.At their core, most strategies seem to be to focus your acquisition targets and process to either eliminate as much competition as possible while still acquiring quality properties and/or by developing and leveraging a competitive advantage.

Custodians do not directly create such programs, as they are prohibited from providing legal and advisory services, so a different type of company will setup such a structure and most such companies have one or more custodians they work with on that piece.The IRA LLC structure is much more responsive and eliminates a lot of per-transaction fees, though of course creating the legal entity in the first place will cost more up front.  

Rachel:I would go even further and eliminate collecting any form of down payment credits (this is the part that tread into the grey area of an instalment sale or financing).  

I'm currently in a very aggressive debt elimination strategy to be completely debt free by 2017 (without any major bumps in the road).

I currently have a FHA and was thinking of refinancing out to a standard conventional @4% eliminate the PMI of $65 a month I am paying.

If you do what @Brian Gibbons suggested you will minimize if not eliminate any loss on your part.

If this is the case, an administrator of the Decedent's estate may be appointed who will either be acting as the fiduciary of a Decedent's intestate estate or acting pursuant to a will for which no living person was qualified or willing to act.In many jurisdictions an informal summary probate is possible for a simple, low value estate that us uncontested which eliminates some of the lengthy delays of a full probate. 

This can eliminate or reduce the chances of a claim against your policy and help keep your rates stable and less likely of being cancelled or non-renewed.All apartment complexes in our metro areas require them, there is a reason.

We also had to clean the gutters which eliminated a good portion of the water intrusion.