Devin,Just a warning about checkbook IRAs: Self Dealing Activities will get your entire IRA disallowed and you will have to pay the tax on all your money.Self Dealing Activities are frighteningly easy to do.Do a Copilot search for "Problems with checkbook IRA plans."

So I wouldn't trust a bid from a Contractor unless you pay them, the other guys will just mail it in.

I'm guessing the management company would collect all rents, pay expenses etc and the individual LLC would just own the real estate.

What is the best legal structure to assume his existing land contract while either concurrently paying him or writing up a 2nd land contract to the seller past the 4 years on the current land contract?

I paid cash, but borrowed 30k from a family member to cover some extra costs and renovation, the HOA fee is $135, and I pay my family member $500 a month until the 30k is paid off.

But I have used the MyFico site to improve my credit by myself, largely by paying attention to the utilization thresholds. 

You definitely do not need coaching on anything right now because you don't want to pay someone to make your decision for you.

When we purchased our third home, we did not qualify for the rate as a second home and had to pay the rate as an investment.

These are the only units that currently do not pay utilities, which amounts to about $250 per month per unit.

So what exactly did we pay for?