Option D: you are considered a "disqualified person" to your IRA and as such are prohibited from engaging in any transaction in an IRA or receiving any benefits from the IRA (directly or indirectly), therefore I strongly suggest you avoid this option if you wish to stay out of trouble. 

Or you can look at transactional funding, but you'd likely spend more on marketing as the need for double closings are less than fix and flip deals.Again, all the best to you on your journey!

My mum currently lives there, she is 80 and not very well, but you would also become a tenant in common and as such if you had the time you could profit 100% from the transaction, as I need cash urgently and am willing to heavily discount the asset.I am wondering if there is a market out there where someone wants to get a foothold in the London market by buying my part of the property.

Meanwhile, the sellers who are most likely to offer creative financing are normally the owners of  real estate that have issues.....condition.....low barrier/over supply market......or perhaps pricing issue, and one of these factors is why its not marketable in a arms length transaction and why creative financing would be accepted.

If I can't work remotely for the first few transactions, do you have a solution?

Foreign nationals have the same rights to purchase real estate as German citizens, making it easy for Americans to invest in the German market without additional legal barriers.Furthermore, Germany has a transparent legal process for buying property, ensuring clarity and security throughout the transaction.

We bank with Chase for our big transactions. 

We've had zero phone calls answered or returned, multiple promises or calls "tomorrow" to talk through issues unmetAt this point we've hired another PM (Sadly MidSouth Homebuyers, whom we have other properties with and have had nothing but excellent experience, wouldn't manage this location) who is now going through re-keying the property and assessing the state of the rehab.This was a test property for us, so we learned what we wanted to learn on this transaction.

It’s their full time livelihood to make transactions happen.  

Eliminate transaction fees2.