I would guess, and it's just a guess, that the lender/owner was attempting a mutually agreed short sale attempt, facilitated by the lender's REO agent.

A real estate agent looks out after the best interest of their client and facilitates the buyer and seller relationship.A flipper adds value by performing repairs, re-marketing, or improving the property.A wholesaler's value add to a transaction is questionable at best.

@Justin R.This is the kind of area where you want to sit down and go over the specifics with a qualified CPA or tax attorney.In addition to the specific letter of the law, you need to avoid any "direct or indirect" benefit between a disqualified party and an IRA.Even if a LLC partially owned by you personally was not directly classified as a disqualified party, if your IRA is facilitating the operations of that LLC, there is a potential indirect benefit to you as a member of the LLC.

This facilitated sorting by various fields :)

Software facilitates this process such that small subscriptions are worthwhile.   

That protects you as being the facilitator of the deal by you getting a loan to purchase the property and then double close to the end buyer.

The finance and analysis part of my degree/job has helped analyze deals but the debt of my degree is what facilitated one of the best decisions of my life.

If they're still interested at the end of it, I say here's the application (Cozy.com), to send it to me by the end of the day including background and credit check (facilitated by Cozy), and go from there.Hopefully this helps!

Technology has simply facilitated this to a degree beyond any could have imagined 50 years ago. 50 years ago people worked to secure food, shelter, security.

However, if tenant choose to pay cash they have to get the cash to me, not me coming to them and there is a $30 charge to facilitate this.