True, I never built anything more than a treehouse when I was eleven, but technically a treehouse is a house so…All I had to do was work with Honomobo to finalize the design, get architectural drawings, receive HOA approval, get a county building permit, get a driveway permit, clear trees for a build site, find a logging truck to take those trees to a lumber mill, find a mill, find someone to take the lumber from the mill to my house, dry the lumber, take a semester of woodworking to learn how to make furniture, engineer/permit/build a septic system, get a well permitted and drilled, install a well pump, learn what a pitless is, install a water line from the pump to the foundation, install a pressure tank, connect the house plumbing to the septic and pressure tank, get the the power company to permit and install a podium for power on site, run power to the foundation, connect the power to the house, engineer a foundation, excavate, get two different sized steel wet plates fabricated, pour said foundation with wet plates mounted all at the same elevation in twenty-five precise locations, hire a crane, hire rigger, hire a welder, build a retaining wall because the dropoff from house to ground level was higher than expected, insulate the crawl space on my own by watching a YouTube video to learn how to load .22 caliber cartridges into a ramstead gun and shoot two and a half inch nails through insulation board into my foundation, badger a supply company until they finally delivered the right insulation board, get them to take away the wrong insulation board they brought that was broken by the wind and scattered into pieces all over the property, find an illusive 3x3 foot crawlspace door, learn how to use a core drill to make a four and a half inch hole in my foundation to install a code required fan to vent the crawlspace that my engineer thought was a stupid requirement and failed to tell me about, figure out what the hell going on when the Honomobo project manager tells me the measurements you gave him of the now poured foundation are wrong, have a panic attack, review plans with engineer, realized the project manager was mistaken, scream into the void, get the last available short term rental license application that had a thirty-day expiration window to pass all inspections, coordinate all subcontractors needed on install day, check with the sheriff about parking semi-trucks on the road, rent a porta potty, rent a dumpster, have coffee and donuts for everyone, oversee the Honomobo install crew that didn’t need overseeing, pass a blower test, pass state inspection, pass septic inspection, build a wooden curb to cover protruding rebar for an unpoured patio, build a temporary front door landing that could theoretically be be permanent so as to pass final county inspection, get a certificate of occupancy, pass the county short term rental inspection on the very last day before it expired to get the very last available license so that I could rent the house to make money in order to no have immediately have to sell, pour the sidewalk and patio.

So the value prop is to simply shot gun as many marketing peices as you can afford and then offer 10 to 30 cents on the dollar and wait for takers.. then once you close resell right away.then there are infill lots through out the US in areas that are actually seeing new builds on infill .. infill lots in areas that have zero new construction are basically worthless.. think major rust belt cities were resale values are 100 to 125 a foot or less..

80-90% LTV/ 100% LTC with a cap at 70% arv - If you have good credit and 5 doors under your belt you should get 85%, maybe 90% if the deal is really good with 100% of the rehab funds in escrow to be drawn upon when work is completed. 

Purchase price: $240,000 Cash invested: $10,000 Working on getting this first "OFFICIAL" deal under my belt.

I know that :)   I have great credit 740+ FICO, a few flips under my belt and this current project isn't complicated ($110k purchase price, $20k rehab for cosmetic fixes).They pulled credit before my term sheet was issued :(   90% LTV on purchase / 100% LTV on rehab  (What they sent:  65% LTV on purchase / 100% Rehab)Rates starting at 7.49% for 12 mos  (What they sent: 10.49% + 2.75% Loan Orig)We have a tight close date and I have to call the Account Executive everyday to find out what the status of the loan is, term sheet, etc..I'm not sure if I will use them for this project as I have already received 90% LTV for purchase and rehab, 9.49%, 12 mos, 1% loan orig, from another source but I wanted to try them as I heard many good things about them from other investors. 

You don’t need one because you’re a consultant with literally thousands of deals under your belt and you know everyone and every house in your market so you’re the MVP on your team obviously.

Maybe after I get a few more deals under my belt.

And, as in your case, with 20 years of savings under your belt, you had enough cash to purchase the property outright.What DOESN'T make sense is to use the IRA to purchase the property using leverage.

Get some deals under your belt, grow experience, and then go for bigger rehabs.

Now you have 2 options under your belt to get them evicted.