My partner and I don't get a cut of any of the money invested, it's a flat-fee membership club.

Therefore, you will want to confirm that the trust company allows for investing in an LLC and the associated fees and minimim balance that applies to the IRA account.2.

So huge portion of investment is not even depreciable. 2) All the repairs and property management fees etc are real expenses.

The right attorney on their side can put you in a position with legal fees and everything else until you are just forced to settle.

If anything’s not up to code, you’ll need to fix it before they sign off.As for costs, you’ll have permit fees—those can range from a few hundred to a couple of thousand dollars.

The penalty can be reduced, but there's a fee (or you take a higher interest rate). 

If I were to do a traditional VA loan, the loan would be close to 7%.Below are what I understand to be the numbers so far:Seller purchased the property in DEC 2022 for $1.13M (owned for 2yrs)Current estimates are Zillow= $1.26M/  Redfin=$1.323MOur agreed purchase price is $1.25MSeller financing would be $120k @ 8% for 3yrs.No commission cost.Small percentage of fees/ costs in the tune of 1.5% of loan amount.Let me know what you think and if you need any additional info.

Let’s say with your plan they make an extra $100 or $200 in fees and you lose $1000 or $2,000 in bookings.

I looked into the maintenance option years back to discover a trend of:  apx. 8% monthly fee which only included rent collection (everything else from maintenance to turnovers etc, extra, and poor reputation on repairs.)

It's an estimated cash on cash return given current rental rates subtract expenses assuming 7% interest rate, 10% management fee, 5% repairs, 5% capex and other expenses like mortgage, insurance, tax. it's a estimate to tell you what properties to analyze vs ignoreyou can see the are pockets of negative returns as well as pockets of positive return. this is to supplement the data @Devin Conley provided