and if so, what kind of hurdles should I account for in planning my strategy?

Hi Account Closed, when you say you looked in Detroit, did you visit?

Accounting practices say the value of an item is its value at purchase until you are selling.

Thanks Account Closed! 

The Qualified Exchange account set up - between you and the bank and QI.When the mechanism is applied this way you neither sell or buy property officially - you "exchange" with your QI. 

Account Closed thank you!

For me, it was a 5 year repayment (each paycheck), with 5% interest back to my account.

It might be possible to 'take over' seller's account, but that can get very messy and is probably against AirBNB's rules.What I did when we bought an AirBNB unit: at the top of the listing was a line that said the the unit was under new ownership as of month/year, and to check out all of the great reviews at <link to old listing> and that nothing has changed. 

So, with the $72,000 you received from refinancing you would have a profit of $47,000 after taking into account the $10,000 you put down on the first house and the $15,000 in rehab. 

The initial goals of the workshops would be to present information to open them into the concepts of using retirement money for investing, and to provide them with the sites of the companies that are admins/custodians of these type accounts, so they can do additional research, and to also point them to the SEC info.In holding these workshops, I'm looking at establishing “Pre-Existing” and “Substantive” Relationships; realizing that this is a long-term strategy.With the idea of it being passive for the investors, my thought is for them to invest in my LLC, and then the LLC buys assets, which I'm thinking to focus on commercial; possibly businesses with strong cash-flow that are also selling real estate as part of the transaction.I'm also thinking, in the workshops, to possibly include those with equity in their properties.