. $150k down, 5 year balloon, 8% interest, no inspections, repairs, or appraisal, $20k over asking, and most importantly.

Learning how to manage them well is far more important.

Its important to do your own legwork on it. 

More importantly, does anyone have an outlet that will appraise the property off of an income-based approach appraisal and not sales comparisons?

Confirm that the IRA LLC provider will prepare all of the documents needed to not only form the LLC (articles of organization, SS-4 to obtain an EIN) but also the documents needed by the trust company to process the investment of IRA funds in the LLC.3.

The RTR team wanted us to invest in real estate and most importantly to see us be successful long term.

Dave solo discussing the opinions in other articles is decent.  

@Shiloh Lundahl Awesome, thank you ok so having that 10-20k as a buy in is important, to first getting into it.... it helps get those first deals started.... just as an aside : I am also just starting out doing finder's fee methods - with tax foreclosure overages refunds, and assett recovery / state funds refunds... so I think those can help me to get that intial 10-20,000.... it might take me some months, but I think I can get there.... that's my initial plan, at leastAnd if I can get that saved up, then that will help me break into deals....

@Samuel Diouf, thanks for sharing that article.

At the end of the day, the most important thing for a small real estate investor is how much cash do you have in your pocket at the end of the month.I also did a MS in Project Management at The George Washington University.