You can surely go through the "Education" tab under your account's main page that has some valuable links.

If you can leverage after rehab and increase the COCR to 10%, it would work.

Educate yourself and learn from other's mistakes to decrease your risk exposure.3.

@Stephen Rossi and welcome to BP, it has everything you need from free online educational videos to connecting to other investors, you can't go wrong on this site!

With such plan custodian is not required, you can have checkbook control over your retirement funds, eliminate custodian, transaction and asset based fees, not be subject to UBIT on leveraged real estate and number of other advantages.

Educated guess.

I would like to do a few things: be able to leverage my equity and be done with PMI (to balance out the increase in taxes). 

The thought is that the deposit will allow them to leverage it into more lending based on whatever their capital ratios requirements are. 

Many people learned the hard way during the real estate meltdown of 2005 that too much leverage is a recipe for disaster. 

Due to our particular circumstances (including our ages: late 60s), it would be difficult to get a conventional loan to leverage it, and buy more properties.