Steve has also provided good advice regarding short-sale transactions and 1031 exchanges not mixing well.

I would think you would want someone in the mix seeing many porential deals and writing enough offers to know how to get a deal done.

Bought my first mixed commercial/residential property in April that consisted of 7 units, and I am closing on my second January 2nd 2013 (another 7 units).

So, cash flow is:cash flow = rent - (50% * rent) - P&I payment Second, you mixing two concepts together in an unusual way.

Not call that person all the time as I do want to try and confirm 4-5 serious buyers for each property type (i.e. 2 fam in the hood, 3 fam in the hood, single family in the suburbs, mixed use property etc.).By no means will we just call one person who we haven't even done business with yet.

I have been thinking about this for a while. Please keep in mind that I am NOT thinking about doing this but am just curious as to how this is enforced. If I have 100K in my SDIRA, bought a property for 90K, paid 10K ...

Wow thanks man, I am going to look into that Assing the contract one....Watch your language in mixed company .... :)

Sorry if I'm mixing numbers or confusing people.

Allot of my coworkers have invested in the local Fayetteville area and have come up with mixed results since transition rates for military families are so high.

So if you have say only 20k or 30k then most likely the small houses.If you have larger amounts of money then you can skip houses and go into commercial or multifamily or have a mix of some small houses and some commercial for the portfolio.Much will depend on as well in if you only want to invest local or out of county or state.