Great book REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE ACQUISITION TECHNIQUES, by William T.

They often offer monthly interest distributions. 

@Percy YarlequeWork around—Take a distribution from your Ira, pay the tax and penalty, and do what you want with the cash. 

You can do this yourself if you are savvy about setting up companies and stock distribution, or have a company set this up for you.

You can contribute there regardless if you take distribution from your Roth IRA or not.The amount of conversion is taxed at the ordinary income tax rate.

I think you should leave him off for now, and create a legal ownership and distribution contract so things are clear on the business and money side of things between you, and his not being on the LLC wont be a detrement to his part in the business.

There is some interesting construction techniques that I haven't seen too often.

I want to use a method that will approximate what a bank's appraiser will use, but I don't know what technique such a person would employ.

There are many BP members who must have awful 401k plans with no match for all the hatred we hear towards them.If you are not going to be working and your taxable income will be low for a period, you may want to consider a Roth conversion ladder to allow for tax free distributions of 401k account balance.

Kyle,  I was just watching an archived BP webinar last night where Brandon Turner was talking about some sneaky offer techniques.