I hear the fall from grace can be long and hard.....Hey Bill Gulley,To go back and read your belly aching comments in this thread it looks a little out of context with you having 100 influence as compared to when you had like 70 or whatever it was.

Good NNN commercial properties can generate those returns, too, provide you tenant doesn't go belly up.

Will Sifert You have already received some great advice... well, except for Michael Quarles ;) Unless you are planning on sending thousands of letters out, I personally suggest juicing every phone call through a friendly, yet professional conversation.

I also build specs(actually my MONEY builds them) to keep the juices flowing in Texas and Utah and have posted several threads here on bigger pockets with the results.

Getting belly to belly with people who know other people? 

Like my dad always said RE is a Belly to Belly business...

Once folks realize this is a belly to belly business their close ratios go way up... now of course if the sellers are out of area or out of state then you MUST give good phone to be successful and that is another discipline you must learn.. you must be very good.

MTR and STR can juice cash flow, but they can also juice headaches.

You always run the risk of running afoul of a "prohibited transaction", you have to maintain % contribution into perpetuity.....Again not to say you can't partner with your IRA, and I would probably do it again...just make sure the juice is worth the squeeze on it because it's a whole nother bag of worms to deal with.

The reason this failed miserably in Chicago is because the project went belly up. - The money is not cheap and the debt will not be subordinated.