You will pay ordinary income and a 10% penalty but if the deal is good enough, you won't care.

Plenty of Americans have been buying in Mexico using a HELOC on a US property.

I usually get mine for clients as closing gifts through American Home Shield. 

Ordinary Course of Business2.

I use First American Exchange

The loan structures for a syndication deal will be the same as an ordinary deal..generally. 

I'd my understanding that your losses can help to offset the ordinary gains/depreciation recapture portion of your tax exposure but not the LTCG... 

It is managed by an American LLC in Delaware.

.#2 - The only issue I will point out with #2 is that when you take the money out, it will be at ordinary income tax rates. 

They're paying a premium for the finished product, move in ready.The people that want to do the flips themselves probably have their own vision for the project and likely don't value the plans too much.Doubt it'd hurt anything, but highly doubtful you'd see much return on the money spent to get themYes I feel it that’s what I was thinking but given the housing shortage in the Bay Area people are doing things out of the ordinary.