Corporate bonds are subject to all sorts of extra scrutiny and financial accounting standards being publicly-traded securities on highly regulated exchanges backed by companies who subject themselves to all of this scrutiny in the interest of providing transparency. 

Where I do agree with John is that many of the south suburbs are very poorly mismanaged and have very horrific and irrational real estate regulations -- you will not want to deal with the municipal officials in many of these towns while doing a rehab, particularly as a rookie 1,000 miles away.

- rules, regulations, etc. 

One thing you definitely would want to keep in mind is knowing IRS rules and regulations as far as what you can and cannot do with your IRA, and make sure you do all of the due diligence you normally would as if you were using non-IRA funds.

Thank you.I would do the following: Assuming the contractor is still licensed file a complaint with the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. 

I’m mostly concerned about following Covid regulations with the tenants through the sale process. 

In many states the cost of title insurance, the risk rate for the cost of the policy coverage, is regulated by the state either by the state promulgating the rate or by the title underwriter submitting the rate they intend to charge subject to the state's approval, known as file and use. 

@Mark Albini I've contacted a few local CU's, and many local banks, they all don't have the HELOC product on investment properties, and on investment property refi's go by the Fanny Mae regulations which allow 75% LTV based on the original sales price after 6 months ownership up to 1 year.

REITs are great because they are highly regulated; setting up a REIT is fairly cumbersome, which weeds out bad actors.  

I think that people forget that we are a heavily regulated profession and owe the same duties to our leasing-only clients that we do to our full service management clients, or a buyer/seller we are representing in a transaction.I think the bottom line is that there are unscrupulous individuals in any profession, and the vast majority of real estate agents ultimately want their clients to be successful and will work hard to that end.