As @John Moore mentioned there is a Summit meet up held the first Friday of every month.

There is a well run BP meet up held in Summit each month as well.

Last month was held at one of my flips in Agoura Hills.

If one of those limbs fell on one of your guys while on her property she could be held liable.

I give them a sales pitch on a house and a nice metal pen with my advertising (2500 are floating around the Midwest). 

If you are gonna pay a tax; a capital gains tax is one of the best taxes to pay(However, I do agree paying no tax is better).Capital gains tax rates are 0%, 15% or 20% depending on what tax bracket your in.You may also be subject to an additional net investment income tax of 3.8%.Unfortunately, I do not believe syndicate investments are able to do 1031(like kind) exchanges.Syndicate investments are normally held within some type of vehicle(LP, LLC) and the IRS does not allow you to exchange partnership interests.

Then in 2016 the bank that held the original owner's mortgage sued.

It is called the Bathroom remodeling workshop....demonstration and hands on, a 10 week class, held one per week for 3 hours on Wednesday nights in which the students construct an actual bathroom....yee haw!!

You cannot compensate yourself from the IRA income (other than by taking taxable distributions from the IRA) and you cannot combine IRA and personal funds.There are two types of self-directed IRA plans, those held by a 3rd party custodian who will do all of the transaction processing, or plans that provide checkbook control so you can directly administer investments.  

When purchasing our new family home we asked our lender if we could still purchase the home if we held onto our previous house, the numbers worked to keep it (cash flowing below the number I would ideally invest in, but it still cashflows positive).