As a lender one of the biggest mistakes I see on a weekly basis from my investors are tax returns that are simply to aggressive.

@John Thedford - That is one of my biggest fears in buying foreclosures. 

Depending your equity sources, you can look to structure the deal as a partnership to get similar results (actually, better) results with lower costs and hassle. 

They are out of Iceland and the barrier in language/verbiage was a constant source of irritation and problems.

I certainly don't expect them to cut the grass, but their's is the only source of water to keep the grass from dying.J.T.

The best source is always self funding, family and friends.

The meeting minutes are sometimes a good source of information to figure out the types of personalities you have on the board before you meet them.You are then very likely to have to go to the next board meeting. 

I would obviously take care in the future of making sure all income and expenses were clearly split and there was no commingling of funds, but my biggest question is whether I can do that "assignment" of the contract from my normal LLC as the purchaser to the 50-50%  with the IRA?

Wanted to see if anyone had put together a deal using the crowd-sourcing platforms out there?

I'm not a whole saler myself but I deal with a couple of them and the biggest issue I always run into is they either don't know the neighborhood, arv, or the cost of estimating rehabs.