My business needs to be a quality tenant that produces cash flow for the RE company.  

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.Claudia Claudia,Developing land is a long process and does not produce cashflow.If you just went through a difficult financial period, have you built enough cash cushion, paid down bad debts and do you make enough money so you can save 30% or more of your income?

We have a solid, income producing home in an area that has a lot of talks of being turned around.

We have a solid, income producing home in an area that has a lot of talks of being turned around.

This is special tax-sheltered savings for your future self.Thinking "I would like to invest in real estate" and looking to your IRA for funding is a disaster in waiting.Thinking "I understand real estate and can produce better returns for my IRA investing in real estate at arms' length" is the way to approach these plans.

Just wanting to get people thoughts on Some of the auto dialer’s that you had a good experience with and produced quality leads.

Is it possible to sell the duplex and 1031 it for the family property if we can prove that the pole barn was being rented out and producing income?

See below for the underwriting exception language from Freddie Mac's Small Balance program:When owner occupied or owner affiliated unit (non‐income producing), underwritten DCR is less than minimum programmatic market DCR (without owner’s unit income included in NOI) or less than 1.00x DCR (without owner’s unit income included in NOI) but includes collection verification of owner occupied unit rent to single asset borrowing entity or base recourse.

Take a friendly contractor with you or a friendly home inspector or a well know real estate agent that is a top producer in their firm.

This is what is used when running proformas to determine value at sale or refinance once the project is built out, leased up and producing income (or projecting these values during initial underwriting).