Keep in mind, you can’t use personal funds or your home's equity to directly fund the SDIRA investment, and all property expenses must be paid from the IRA.

Its dashboard is so cluttered, it hard to see who has paid and who hasn't.

As already mentioned, you could sell via seller financing to lower AGI, as all you would have to claim is the payment income - until balloon payment received.Did know an investor that had 14 properties paid off and he moved into one every two years to then sell with the $250k single exemption.

@Jim Stanley Keep in mind any expenses of your SDIRA asset must be paid for by the account that owns that asset. 

The recipient inherits your cost basis (what you paid) for calculating capital gains or depreciation.You and your spouse can each gift $17,000/year per recipient under the annual gift tax exclusion ($34,000 total).

Please keep in mind, this is my opinion and I am not being paid by RESimpli or any other person for my comments.

Those failures are  more negligent than a PM allowing a guest who paid with expectation to stay at the house to remain there in the middle of winter when they arrived on a Friday evening as you described.For now you will have to rely upon insurance, I don't believe the PM acted unreasonably given the circumstances.

We try to find properties that either be modified while keeping the sales price in mind or have a flow that works just needing updating.The open concept is another point that works for some but not the way it was pre-pandemic in many areas. 

I was going to bring up that the seller financing doesn’t matter if you plan to get a construction loan as the seller financing will have to be paid off. 

We just paid $500 for a 2,600 sqft house that was fairly clean.