This will give you the benefit of vastly increasing the average age of your credit accounts.After that, your score should increase relatively rapidly.

The benefit being it would come out tax free in retirement.

The detail is great and should be a huge benefit to folks putting one of these together.

We mostly stick to single fams right now, and we use cash derived from a line of credit cross-collateralized over a a few of our properties (as opposed to taking out loans to buy properties), so I really don't know what the rates and terms are for 3-unit purchase money right now.

They hold the funds, sign the documents, cut the checks for acquisition & expenses and receive the income - all for the benefit of the IRA and at your direction.  

If you keep waiting to time the  market you will never be able to indulge in the benefit of real estate!

I use it for ones in my area and have benefited from the local relationships made there.

I mis-spoke, I was simply try to say that an investor can borrow from their own sources to get the benefits of leverage without having to cosign a loan for a larger amount that will negatively impact their net worth.

But for me the benefits our weigh the risks and draw backs.

Thus, if the lease is written between ABC LLC & Tenant rather than Owner & Tenant, will this provdide any sort of protection or added tax benefits?