I use Quickbooks Pro for the properties and Quicken Home and Office for my personal accounts, stocks, IRA's etc.  

@Arty FreshYears ago I found making money in my ira/401k worked well for me to alleviate the tax burden. 

A lot of forum members are very knowledgeable in their respective fields related to real estate investing, whether that is real estate sales, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, or tax and legal guidance.

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@Frank Capaldi as @Michael Ealy recommended, private money can be a good option in this situation.Many times, if people you know have an old IRA you can help them set up a self-directed IRA and make you a loan secured by the property, to refinance out the hard money lender at much lower rates.They may be thrilled to get a 6-10% return secured by real estate and backed by someone they know, while you may be thrilled not to be paying 14-16% interest.If the hard money rates are killing you, it can be a good interim/stopgap solution to give you some breathing room until you can fit into the bank/credit union box again.

I need a Florida based attorney to create an LLC operating agreement for and IRA owned LLC.Does anyone have any recommendations?

I have been thinking about investing in the Crowdstreet blended portfolio, in my IRA.

A lot of forum members are very knowledgeable in their respective fields related to real estate investing, whether that is real estate sales, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, or tax and legal guidance.

I even had to dip into my IRA for the downpayment, so don't worry about that. 

Beckstone is a turnkey provider that specializes in Solo 401K and checkbook IRA investors.