When getting your first property it should be a good deal but DOES NOT have to be a homerun.

I’ve took the self taught route with real estate and have managed to land 2 decent  assignment deals after staying at it for a while.

In a nutshell, here is the deal: the IRS requires that you treat at least some minimal portion of the interest-free payments as interest.

Of course, you would not have a remaining equity split to deal with, but the dollars per distribution/time to distribute concept is the same.BTW, in 16 years of setting up self-directed IRA plans, fractional distributions in-kind was my least favorite strategy. 

With the rates at what they are my thought process is to do the deal in all cash then if rates drop do a cash out refinance.

Remember, "You have the right to remain silent and anything you say can AND WILL be used against you." when talking with a government inspector.

I've noticed it's more true the smaller the deal.

i just closed a VA deal for my buyer last week.  

It takes us about 60 seconds to find out what pricing is for someone so it's usually not that big of a deal to just ask a loan officer.

When you underwrite a deal, on the T12, it will show utilitiesGino