Glad it worked out favorably.

Buyer acknowledges that during the course of Buyer's negotiation with Seller, Seller selected its choice of (i) title insurance company licensed in the state where the Property is located to provide Buyer with its title insurance policy(ies) (the “Seller Title Provider”), and (ii) the closing agent, and Buyer was given the option of either: (a) Approving the Seller-selected closing agent and the Seller Title Provider, in which case Seller would pay for the cost of Buyer's title insurance policies and all related search fees in accordance with Section 8.2.2 hereof, AND one-half of all escrow and closing fees charged by Seller-selected closing agent, not to exceed Four Hundred Fifty Dollars and NO/100 ($450.00), unless otherwise required by law or agreed to in writing between the Parties; or (b) Rejecting the Seller-selected closing agent and the Seller Title Provider in favor of a different closing agent and title insurance company licensed in the state where the Property is located to provide Buyer with its title insurance policy(ies) (“Buyer Title Provider”), in which case Buyer would pay for the entire cost of Buyer's title insurance policies and all related search fees and all of the escrow and closing fees charged by the Buyer-selected closing agent, without any contribution from Seller, and the provisions of section 8.2.1 shall apply"With the Owner's policy I will still be responsible for Lis pendens for code violations or not ?

If you turn the garage into square footage you will have to now look at houses with similar square footage but no garage which may not be favorable in your market.

The terms are more favorable for those who have done several deals and less favorable for those who have done none or very few.

If ever you need your gold to buy an asset when currency is no longer favored, the guy on the other side of the trade wants to know the purity and weight and couldn't care what year it was minted.

I do X and Y to tip the scales in my clients favor, etc.

I'll start by saying that I am not a financial advisor and have limited knowledge on taxes and tax planning, so I'm simply a fellow journey-er sharing my experience:Using funds from a tax-favored account for a personal residence (even one that you eventually tend to use as an investment) is quite difficult, if not impossible/illegal to do while the funds are still in the fax-favored account. 

I have heard more favorable things about going towards the Bitterroot however, which we would be fine with. 

The owner was doing more of a favor to get her back on her feet.

I started researching self directed IRA because a lot of people seem to use that on here but I stumbled across a Solo 401k vs self directed IRA comparison and there were some compelling differences in favor of Solo 401k.