That sounds like a movie plot. 

Sounds SO INTERESTING.

@Anthony Gayden selling a house for 160k that is Worth 250k doesn't sound very appealing to me either as an investor.Let me give you an example of how the numbers work out so that you can see why the numbers make better sense for us to do the lease options.Last November we purchased a house in Apache Junction, Arizona.  

From your above statements, it sounds like this is acceptable and conforms to IRS tax code?

They sound interesting.

Sounds like you're focused on apartments.

In one breathe you do not want to be a sponsor or managing member but in another you are not wanting to be a passive investor in a larger syndicate.It sounds like you do not want to to work for the yield a sponsor gets but want more return than a passive investor gets as standard investing in a syndicate.Sounds like you are looking more for a joint venture arrangement.Brian Burke is out that way and a member on here and he does large multifamily syndicates.

I would really like to start flipping Instead of renting it sounds like you have to have a lot of houses just to make a little moneyADVICE PLEASE

I want to do a fix and flip on SFH and looking for ways to get private money, lending from someone ROTH IRA sound like it would benefit both me and the person.  

It seems shady and sounds eerily similar to a form of bid rigging.