You need to be careful not to be providing services or adding value to the IRA personally.Such transactions will have exposure to UBIT taxation, since they are considered a trade or business and not passive investments.  

I made money at $200 a night but it was a real drag dealing with the consequences. 

The only way to force it back is to make it extremely expensive (high trade tariffs) on overseas goods imported into the US.In a global economy it will hurt Americans both short and long term but it will achieve what they really want.    

But if you want to invest in things that you will be in and out of (BRRRR, Fix and flips, day trading, etc.) then the HELOC is better.

bout fell out of my chair.. just a very foreign concept to me.Granted we build 5 THOUSAND new apartment doors a year here in PDX market and that's were all our renters go.Also I was commenting on another post about how new construction basically stopped in your area and that was correct.. takes a while to get it up and running . we were comparing Memphis to Vegasand PHX  well a huge portion of the renters in Vegas and PHX were sub trade contractors and when new construction like everywhere else came to a stop.. landlords found themselves with huge vacancys  apartments were lost.. 4 plexs completely vacant for a few years.my point was Memphis is a rental town has been will always be and is not subject to the whims on new construction and those that work in those trades.. your not going to have a ton of new construction when you can still buy existing homes for less than replacement costs..

If the taxes are low enough such that carrying is of little consequence hold for the future.

No, it doesn't have to be 50K, but it has to be enough that the seller feels comfortable that you are not just going to tie up his property and then walk without any consequence to your wallet. 

I'm originally accountant/financial analyst by trade that is looking to make the leap out of corporate servitude and into full time REI in and around the Carolinas.Short term goal is to focus on flipping to build up some cash/assets/experience with the goal of eventually creating my own PE pool to start working multiple projects and also start looking at development deals.

On my commercial clients, I take 100 pictures on a 100k project, develop a scope of work summary per trade, share a dropbox link, and have them do a table bid.

We do help folks with due diligence and trading and it involves far more than simply sending an email.