From there, it's easy enough to look up the tax rate for corporations and make your tax burden assumption.

I know broker fees are $500 so $12,500 in commission?

So, if she bought the bitcoin for $1 million and is now using it to close on a $10 million property, that is a $9 million gain that needs to be accounted for in her income tax.

If you asked me to run a ton of properties, I would still be happy to do it, I may just charge a service fee at some point.

There are two reasons this is a bad idea.Investing with an SDIRA (assuming it is not a Roth) will often result in paying significantly more taxes. 

Too many are locking up properties at retail prices and tacking on outrageous assignment fees, leaving no room for investors to profit.

Can easily get a 20% referral fee just for sourcing and handing off that lead.

Zachary,Your concerns about Cleveland are valid—high property taxes and stagnant population growth are definitely challenges to consider.

The best strategy I seem to have deployed so far was to contact all my current tenants and let them know I’d give them a cash referral fee of $250 for anyone they recommend to me that goes through the vetting process and successfully moves in.

Be sure to hold a hefty reserve to handle on-going maintenance, capex, taxes, and insurance.