I hired this company to replace the roof, and I gave them $5000 upfront, and we agreed to pay the remaining balance upon completion.

La Quinta has a bit better balance and occupancy the rest of the year, and there's some reasonably priced in the Cove.

You can transfer the deed to your LLC after the fact, but that "could" trigger a due on sale clause, initiating the lender to accelerate the loan (e.g. pay the balance). 

You are rollover entire balance into self-directed IRA. 

I'm just trying to balance everything (including cost) and I don't want to overdo it.  

I am balancing the tasks of paying down students loans and saving for my first purchase.

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Every three months we reconcile: if there is a surplus in the utilities budget account, we provide the tenants with the choice of leaving the balance in the account in anticipation of larger bills (i.e. winter) or applying it towards the next month's rent.  

He is NOT considering taking early distribution, losing half of his balance to taxes and penalties, and then buying a rental under his own name so he can get some tax deductions. 

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($424,100 or less) dropped to 4.14 percent from 4.17 percent, with points increasing to 0.38 from 0.36 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan-to-value ratio loans.Fratantoni said a 15 percent increase in government refinance applications helped boost refinance applications.