My biggest question is should I roll my old 401(k) into an individual IRA or should I wrap the two together and then borrow from them the way you're suggesting above.The idea of borrowing from my 401(k), and then paying it back over five years is really appealing.

When you say US compliance costs are you referring to the individual's income taxes?

I will try and be brief, always a challenge for me, as it seems, once i share my experience, ask for advice, create a thread, it gets hijacked by an autoresponder claiming I am trying to solicit business in some way.

I created the following Letter of Interest (LOI) to send to roughly 10 buildings we have identified as opportunities in the North San Diego region.  

@Chris Frydenlund go ahead and send me a PM, I have created small apps for scrapping and automating on Craigs so I should be able to help you out.

However, it is usually easy to rent individual rooms this late in the year - lots of {particularly foreign} students land at campus without a place to stay.  

@Lou Metore  I think your response is accurate for the millions of joker brokers running around the US.s. those that are just crooks IE Due diligence pump and dump... to folks trying to broker deals just like you allude to.however a good LOCAL HML can be a valuable asset.. but this is someone you can eyeball and create a relationship with just like a private lender..

But as you know, if you have a tenant who lives in a manner that creates pest problems, this could be very expensive for you. 

Would it be recommended for me to create an entity?

I read this post about an hour ago and went straight to IFTTT and created my recipe.