@Josue Velney then those contractors arent very good businessmen . ( unless they are holding first position on a note)   Trusting a person or company to pay after you have  $ 50 K in materials and another $30K in labor plus profit .  

Too many partners is when the profits of the company are not justifying the cost of the partnership. 

I guess he prefers to do most of the investing on his own.Although it's good I wouldn't mind turnkeying either if it profits me at the end of the month.Thanks for giving me your feedback!

Yet, should I just hold on to this Bay Area real estate making modest profit?

My thought behind this is to not only cover the costs but to generate some positive cash flow.

.$100k loan amount is where lenders stop seeing any significant profit, $50k is where lenders start to lose money by doing the mortgage at all.

Learning & practicing the math is critical for finding a profitable deal.

Apparently, the ginseng root yields high profits.

We’re trying to figure out how to avoid the short term gain tax implication of the sale since were in the highest bracket and that will basically eat into all of our profit.

I know that any distributions from my IRA is a taxable event subject to income taxation, but I just want to make sure that transferring from an inherited IRA to a self-directed IRA does not generate unexpected tax implications (because I'm simply transferring between slightly different IRA accounts and custodians and not taking any distributions).