I'd recommend determining your true return on your existing house, including $1,700 rent, less vacancy, management fees (should include whether you self-manage or not), taxes (will increase in SC more than your calculation), insurance as a rental, maintenance and cap ex (often ignored or under-estimated).  

I know that I can present an investor with a solid return on their money.Are there any creative methods to gain access to $10,000-$20,000 in order to cover my closing costs?

Where I live, the price of real estate would return a small cap of 1-3% and sometimes negative.

You can't have all three.I started out small, doing projects that I could easily figure out.

Jason Jones 21day is for landlord to return deposit to tenants and I am not sure it is applicable here.

My understanding of investing in REITs is that the returns are taxed as regular income as opposed to capital gains.

Does all the cashflow return  back into the IRA and will I have to pay taxes on the cash flow taxable within the year it is generated or not until i take it out? 

If I would pay for the rehab then I would get an agreed upon return.

I decided to return to teaching last year 2015-2016 after being out for 11 years.

Hopefully they have another deal in the pipeline to pay their bills again next month..This notion that all agents are out there crushing it and screwing people out of profit or equity return has got to stop.