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, as Lucas Hall suggests, Cozy doesn’t receive revenue from accepting credit card payments, then there should be no reason Cozy doesn’t add this functionality.Lucas, as illustrated above, the landlord’s choice of payment acceptance can have a profound impact on risk.

-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. 

However I have benefited as a landlord from my renters carrying a rental insurance policy. 

Is the benefit just to get around the potential rental property issues?

I'm clearly sold on the benefits.