I have contested my property taxes on numerous occasions and have not had as much luck as you. 

Just saying there are products out there that you can use to achieve your goals without stretching the truth or lying by omission.Pro tip of the day:  There are numerous no income verification loans for investment properties on the market today (business purpose loans) that require you to close in an entity and you can use a new LLC. 

An error here can be huge.. no skimping.

After a few years I decided its not the career for me and I decided to get into real estate after reading numerous books and listening to podcasts.

After analyzing numerous pitman properties, I'm finding that the high taxes really eat up cash flow. 

I have numerous class C rentals in Tennessee and a couple of them are duplexes.

,,,Opps I made an error so I deleted this post. 

I own a brokerage and have helped numerous people with no strings attached.

It only took a short while for the book Rich Dad Poor Dad to be mentioned numerous times in the podcasts.

So you don't have to repay anything back to the IRA, all profits belong to the IRA"use $20,000 from my IRA to cover some rehab costs" - again, if this deal is done inside of an IRA then your IRA will pay all rehab coasts, not somethe calculator is not designed to address the "mortgage", it is designed to help you calculate the numbers on the flip, if there is a mortgage it would be part of the holding cost, there is a place to enter that in the calculatorIt seems to me that you are somehow trying to separate this deal from your IRA, that might be where your error is.