Failure to adequately follow recordation requirements could invalidate the instrument you used to create the easement.Additionally, you may become liable for tax deficiencies for the improved land.There are a number of liabilities from both injury and tax perspectives that you should become aware of, and contract with a local attorney to adequately protect your interests.Disclaimer: Not legal advice.

An IRA may borrow, but the debt instrument must be non-recourse, meaning no personal guarantee from you. 

Intangible rights to the asset may be another story...https://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sa33.pdf(1) The term ‘‘security’’ means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a ‘‘security’’, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.

When someone writes you a check they are signing a legally binding instrument. 

I agree any debt instrument or long term lease option in my mind I want it of record so nothing can jump ahead of me on title through the term of the deal..  

An LLC typically must disclose the members of the LLC on the filing instruments called the Articles of Incorporation.

Did you know that you can take your retirement savings instruments and use them to buy real estate?

Bigger Pockets has been very instrumental to me over the past few years. 

Keep in mind that you can always get exposure to foreign real estate as an asset class, via REITs or other passive instruments, without dealing directly with language barriers, time zones, logistical issues (14+ hour flight), etc. 

So, the first thing I would do is look up the title to the home and see if the security instrument is still valid.