Doing things in the right order matters as in most rental markets it would be harder to get good investment returns for example on refinishing hard wood floors for a rental... buyers appreciate/expect refinished floors more than the typical renter... you also would not want to have 5 years of wear on refinished floors to then put it up for sale.Do all that and in 5 years you can still decide to keep it you will likely have massively increased the appraisal value, do a COR and fund your next deal. 

I think I would come close to allowing her out of her lease assuming she funds someone who passes your screening requirements and signing a lease with her replacement.

Go half on a deal, fund a portion if not the whole deal, bring an excellent deal to the table.

This means you have to pay the transfer taxes twice.Some lenders will require you to bring your own funds for the first part of double closing. 

Do we need to do anything in order to receive funds for someone else’s IRA?  

To acquire funding, close on a house, and get a team together to start rehabbing it before the end of September. 

There are several viable strategies available to you, you just have to pick the one that works best for your personality and follow through.Some say pay the highest interest debt off first, then the second highest and so on.Others say pay the lowest balance debt off first, the the second lowest and so on.With your free $1,000 a month you could choose to put it all towards debt pay down, or use less than all if it for debt payments and the rest for saving and investing.Personally I paid my lowest balance debts off first (now I only have one left) and I have always saved and invested so I have funds for opportunities that present themselves.

How did you find and fund your first deal?

- Are the funds generally open-ended with no particular exit strategy?

We use private funding to pay cash for properties and then refi out (BRRRR) into bank financing.