Depends how hands on you want to be, flipping is a full time gig until you really stream line the process.

@Nicholas HamblenEach situation is a little different to say what is ideal and what is not, but what I can say is that we have many clients who enjoy having a rental property in their IRA that brings in a steady stream of rental payments to their IRA. 

I would not pay off the loan, but instead keep leveraging properties to generate more streams of income.

Stop the bleeding while you still have blood to bleed. 

So any help would be appreciated At the end of the day if you can do both you have an opportunity to create and income stream and also make money from flips then why not?  

REI is cheaper to leverage (you can buy stocks on margin too), REI is easier to pull an income stream out of than dividend stocks, REI comes with tax advantages of depreciation.Stocks are very liquid (REI is very illiquid).

Your blood line in 200 years will thank you

Unless you have another 9-5 income stream - solely focusing on flipping (from a novice investor prospective) is a losing strategy.

In expensive markets it is even easier for a newbie to overestimate ARV while potential buyers are conservative. especially right now were sellers may not have caught up with the fact that market is leveling and retreating.. so you do all this work and the seller wants 50k more than its worth even as a wholesale so no one buys it.. time wasted.I cant see how anyone that really wants to bring buyer and seller together just does not get a license.. you have multiple ways to make money with the license. listings selling them. referrals  leasing all sorts of things revenue streams.. wholesaling as its preached has ONE buy low sell to the next guy who may or not over pay.

I'm using prop stream and can gather a motivated seller list.