Regarding the notion of investing your IRA in an S-corporation, please note that only certain persons can be shareholders of an S-corporation & this does NOT include an IRA account.   

Loose lending, unqualified borrowers, speculation and the notion that RE is a forever high demand, tax preferred and scarce commodity.

I was brought up on the notion that your first purchase should be an investment vehicle contrary to her upbringing in a doctors family where mom picked out the house.

I was brought up on the notion that your first purchase should be an investment vehicle contrary to her upbringing in a doctors family where mom picked out the house.

Under the notion that education is a regular part of this process, what are some other actionable steps that I could take to move forward.

With the same notion, yes the entire interest is deductible from the LOC when you use the entire fund to purchase next investment property.

For everyone questioning this notion I only wish I could break attorney-client confidentiality (which I cannot), because I could tell you one heart-wrenching story after another where the lifelong friendship (or family relationship) came to a halt - and equally painful, their tales of defamation and gossip within these lifelong networks of support. 

I know it is not worth paying to take her to court but I have every notion to prove a point that she owed a balance then jerked me around trying to get it as if she was coming. 

Especially if you believe you come up with all the good ideas and all the other person is good for is making your high-quality ideas work -- your partner may instead believe that he moves heaven and earth to turn all the hare-brained notions that he's forced to put up with out of you into something usable.

@Mike G.No particular reason I would be against their boot camp other than my preconceived notions about gurus in general.