Someone needs to move into the home to qualify for the exclusion, if not the tax assessor with re-assess the property taxes. 

To qualify for a conventional loan, your second home must:Be a one-unit property that’s available and suitable for year-round use.Be occupied by you, as the borrower, for some portion of the year.Be controlled exclusively by you and not a property management company.Not be a rental property or timeshare arrangement.

I am a Real Estate Agent in NC, that works exclusively with investors to find them off-market deals.

This is for the medium-term rental book coming out in November.We don't have a forum exclusively for medium-term rentals (yet!)

In addition, if you are self-employed with no full-time employees you may wish to consider opening a Solo 401k instead of a self-directed IRA as it has several advantages over an IRA LLC such as much higher contribution limits, direct checkbook control (i.e. no need to have the account at a specialty trust company), ability to take a 401k loan, exclusion from unrelated debt finance income tax with respect to investment in real estate acquired with non-recourse financing, etc.In addition, please note if you purchase debt-financed real estate with your IRA, unrelated debt finance income tax should apply to the income attributable to debt-financed real estate held by your IRA.

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Further, even those that are have exclusions as to what is FDIC insured and what is not. 

In addition, if you are self-employed with no full-time employees you may wish to consider opening a Solo 401k instead of a self-directed IRA as it has several advantages over an IRA LLC such as much higher contribution limits, direct checkbook control (i.e. no need to have the account at a speciality trust company), ability to take a 401k loan, exclusion from unrelated debt finance income tax with respect to investment in real estate acquired with non-recourse financing, etc.In addition, please note if you purchase debt-financed real estate with your IRA, unrelated debt finance income tax should apply to the income attributable to debt-financed real estate held by yourIRA.

There are very strict rules about keeping IRA investments at arm's length and exclusively for the benefit of the IRA. 

Seems like Bridge has a very strong reputation (personal endorsement from Brandon Turner is quite impressive) here on BP - I was surprised to see that Voepel (the PM that Bridge uses exclusively it seems?)