I hope this helps it does cost me time sweat descent friends and roughly 80 bucks a mailing and most of that is because stamps arent cheap.Sorry for the long post,  but if you have any questions for me or dont understand hit me up.Good Luck,Mike

For example, while IRAs funds may be invested in real estate, the IRA owner cannot do any of the sweat equity work as it would be deemed prohibited. 

You lose some points but you get all of them back.Last year when I bought my car my score dropped 20 points, however I got all those points back in a few months.I wouldn't sweat it.

I would definitely ask about her financial ability but I also know that there are  investors that bring experience and sweat equity in deals instead of cash even though they may have the money.  

Plus, I'm making a little commission on both ends too, so I'm not going to sweat a little hear or there.

if not, learn. work for habitat for humanity so you can create "sweat equity."

I don't really consider 1.5M a large deal, although putting up 300k is not in the cards for me at this point.My family had rental property when I was growing and I eventually took over six doors, converted them and sold them for 1.2M +I've also worked on 20M new constuction projects even though we didn't get off the ground, I learned a lot there as well.I want to structure deals so I can acquire numerous doors and use my managment skills and sweat equity for now.My brother in-law is a commercial agents who sells 18M+ multi-families all the time.

It's like he put in sweat equity, without the actual equity stake.

Did you pay or did he do it for "free" as in sweat equity?

Flipping is the buying with the intent on fixing the property or improving it to sell it thereby cashing in upon sweat equity.Circumstances will determine everything.