Now, when it is time for a military move then you can do it again at the new location with the remaining amount of the VA benefit or refinance the VA loan into a conventional loan and use the full benefit again.

Recapture is figured at the lesser of your marginal tax rate or 25%, so if you're in a higher tax bracket you end up repaying significantly less in recapture than the benefit you received.

Plus I have heard some benefits to your heirs when a Roth is involved.   

Bottom line, if you can rent it for at least close to cost, you’ll benefit significantly from future equity, as well as future rent increases.

I think that is great benefit to do real estate close to where you live and take advantage of your background.Definitely keep this thread updated with what you end up doing and how that worked for you.

Both have their benefits. 

However, you can make a trustee-to-trustee transfer as long as the IRA into which amounts are being moved is set up and maintained in the name of the deceased IRA owner for the benefit of you as beneficiary.Like the original owner, you generally won't owe tax on the assets in the IRA until you receive distributions from it.

We ended up profiting a little over 10k, but I really feel the lessons learned will benefit us so much more! 

-If I cash out refinance, my payment goes up to $1,700 a month (5% interest rate), or about $1,200 a month after principal pay down and tax benefits and I get 110K cash out to set aside for more investing down the road (have significant cash reserves for that now though too).

The Lithonia deal may have a higher cap rate (as it should) where the Peach tree corners may be higher appreciation following rent raises (commercial does not appreciate for any other reason but by cap rate compression PLUS NOI increases).Is the syndication debt only, cash flow only or a mix of appreciation (at the end) and percent of cash flow as it increases..Lots of syndications benefit the syndicators mostly, some are balanced and are win-win for the investor as well.