If yes, then sell3) Otherwise, refinance and keep the property.PS:- IMO, from the pure analytical standpoint, your purchase price is irrelevant.

I hope those male realtors you "gelled with" didn't lose your business purely due to their gender.

From a purely numbers based view, if you are able to generate a higher rate of return on your investment than you are paying in interest, you should invest.

to ask a realtor to show me properties in the same neighborhood/price range as my rehab will be sold in, just for the pure sake of getting a better take on my competition?

Did you get your broker's license purely for investment purposes or do you also run a brokerage on the transaction side?

So the B of A is pure speculation (and hope) on my part at this point regarding my situation with the changed locks. 

The better option would be to have a deed of trust as security for a note, secured by a specific property being invested into.In the IRA LLC model, all of your interactions are with the LLC, not the underlying IRA that owns the LLC.If the client is purely receiving interest on a note, this is deemed passive and not subject to taxes such as UBIT. 

Then I took the time to learn as much as I could about REI and started buying pure rentals (when I had more time on my hands).  

Or are you purely trying to make the most return on your home purchase by buying low and selling high? 

:@Paul Ostler:I found a great post about this not to long ago something  I been looking into as well. 123-real-estate-investing-Subject To The first part of that is fine, then it gets into pure garbage, never use a power of attorney, never!