Switching now from a peak bull market into a self-directed IRA and investing in SFH rentals from there would benefit you more than the HELOC pain.

McKinney is booming and Princeton has certainly benefitted from it.

that might be a benefit to you as well.In this day of real estate commoditization I rarely see an exchange fall apart because of the 45 day period and the inability to find a property - don't be tempted by tax fraud. 

@Dmitriy Fomichenko I've spoken to several representatives with the plan administrator and they have all told me that I am able to make contributions back into the plan when discussing the benefits of the plan.

I have tried numerous times to ask my broker about this and it is a run around the bush and end up talking about something that I didn't even ask about...

If you don’t have cash to pay an option fee though, what benefit does the seller get in locking up this property for you?

So, I suspect there would be a negative reaction to a crawl space because there might be a modest stigma about it here. 2) One of the benefits of a slab would be no steps to get into the house.

Additionally, only my aunt's third appears to benefit from the 250k capital gains exemption.The house has appreciated approximately 300k in the last 16 years. 

The benefit is that you'll be able to use the same funds to repeat the process for more properties without having to pay off the previous ones.

As long as they have income other than Social Security Benefits, you can garnish their wages.