And even after all the wealth of information I've received from listening to the podcast shows, I feel like a chimp in a rocket ship!

They're typically $150-$300 per draw depending on the lender.

:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+, zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680, some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

At a general level, capital gains taxes are recognized when the income from sale is received -- so a seller pays a pro rata share of capital gains on the purchase price as payments on the note are made. 

Hi Tina,The only type of loan you can utilize is a non-recourse loan in a SDIRA.A non-recourse loan is a secured loan backed by a pledge of collateral, typically the property that it is beingused to purchase, where neither the borrower, nor the borrower's self-directed IRA, will be held liable forpayment in the event of default.If a loan does default, the only asset the bank can go a􀁹er is the asset in question.

Do landlords typically relinquish everything to the PM?

The response I received was a phone message at my home stating that my offer was too low and that they had multiple offers on the property already way higher than mine.

Maybe that lender has some sort of weird requirement regarding where the funds need to come from, but typically a HELOC isn't an issue....

Yea retail is a tough space right now, few years ago is a different world in the commercial lending space.I have resources for retail, typically looking at a 1.1 DSCR

@Donald Blair unless something has changed, the Canadian mortgages are amortized over 30 years but the rate term is typically about 5 years.