However, we had a lot of equity within the first year and were able to get the original bank who financed us to get us low-cost seconds on each to facilitate capital for other investments.

If you facilitate an option, you can be paid.

Are there big differences between companies that facilitate the self directed IRA used to invest in real estate?

You can go to Hard Money and Private money lenders in order to facilitate purchases.

Get him to cooperate with facilitating any repairs/painting/ etc that need to be done while he is still there.

Welcome to BiggerPockets @Elaine Gee.well done on facilitating the deal

I am shamelessly stealing the idea of @Brie Schmidt for Chicago but I think it would be a good idea to do a roll call for CT investors in an effort to facilitate networking with other CT investors.

I will say this, I think there are definitely creative ways to use insurance to facilitate your RE investing and wealth building strategy, I just haven't totally figured them out yet.

In this case I dropped my fee from what would have been 2.5% to me down to 2% to facilitate the transaction.

While I am studying for my license, I had been toying with creating a business plan to facilitate my transition to a realtor, and part of that idea included doing exactly what you have suggested.