But in some cities, that may not be the case, so do your homework to find out.Stacey Freed writes about homes, design, remodeling, and construction for online and print national trade and consumer publications, including "Better Homes & Gardens."

Are there other real estate trading options that leverage a crash?

It now moves to the Senate for action. 

The must-do is immediate actions, and inventive problem solving. 

Even if the law in our state allows declining a spouse with adverse action, I would not use it, in this case it seems unreasonable to ruin the opportunity for these folks, we only want to protect ourselves if the situation changes.

Books and podcasts certainly help, but personally some of the most essential principles and actionable steps I've learned have been gathered from REI meet-ups.

After living in a condo by myself because i was a big bad 22 year old who deserved his own space, i started learning about real estate and traded in my $1200/mo payment for a house hack that gave me a 3-bed unit all to myself for only $300/mo out of pocket.

Now that the house is back on the market in a time without as much action, they current owners are countering with 225K which as 26K over asking. 

Substance generally rules over form in legal matters so be sure you know what liability you're assuming by playing this role and what you should justly receive in trade for the liability.   

Such plans have different architecture to facilitate non-traded assets like real estate, stock of privately held companies, etc., all of which an IRA can invest in per IRS rules.The key to understand is that the IRA is the investor, not you personally.