Have the person with the IRA set up an IRA LLC, or the trust-based variation, then have them go to the auction with you and bring checks.

@Graham Lutz I'd approach things differently from looking at where a factory is opening or what markets are hot.I'd start with the list of Metropolitan Statistical Areas on wikipedia, which you can sort by growth rate:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan...Even though there are growth rate variations within MSAs (i.e., declining areas within growing MSAs and vice-versa), to make things simple, I would avoid any MSA that is declining in population, period.  

You might be able to get AN ESTIMATE from looking at gosection8.com for similar type properties in the same neighborhood, although the price variations everyone is bringing up might make that hard. 

It sounds like you didn’t manage this well either by allowing any variation from the contract, but again guessing on my part.

The variation on price is dependent on the finish-out.I know folks that do more volume that build at a lower cost - generally in the $90-$100 per square foot range.I've never built in a small town, but I would imagine that 60 miles from a major city in Texas isn't that big of a deal as long as the subs are looking for work. 

There are many variations of everything I listed above depending on the wording of the contract.With investors, they will focus on getting this under contract to take a house off the market.  

There are several variations on this technique.

Even if we all called that success it leaves a wide variation of results that could make that happen.Any thoughts?

There's some amount of variation, so you just have to keep calling around until you find someone who has a loan product with terms that will work for you.

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