If he needs a place to live, then you'll want to solve that other piece of the puzzle. 

These are the pieces of the puzzle that you need to study to get a useful understanding of your prospects habits, truthfulness, stability, and, to large extent, their key financial ratios.

Unemployment rate is only one piece of the puzzle.  

It just puzzles me that they’re saying that within a few hours of me agreeing to what they countered.

Perhaps the CPA has an additional piece to the puzzle that you're not disclosing here?  

This really put the final pieces of the puzzle together for me in my mind.

The bigger the buffer, the less likely they’re going to stiff you on the last day of the month because other bills got to them first.The next piece of the puzzle is the criminal record.

I'm puzzled why you believe that others who have successfully employed this technique would be compelled to share their secrets with you. 

What I hear you saying is if EACH of a person's SDIRAs - in this case one Traditional and one ROTH - did a deal together withOUT doing the LLC part of the puzzle that then that would make it so neither SDIRA could ever add more money into that first deal if needed, particularly if those SDIRAs did a partnership instead of just a simple 'tenants in common' arrangement? 

I'm stuck and need help finding the next piece of the puzzle!