With a standard SDIRA, you can use a company such as Equity Trust and they have all-inclusive annual fees based on the amount of the IRA value.

The town she lives in is very impoverished and standard properties in low income neighborhoods range from $20,000 to $60,000.

I believe the quality of mobile home HVAC are not the same as SFR so thats why it is cheaper.

Right now, just buying some properties in a working class area (not a war zone by my definition) and in a few years, with enough properties under my control, I may start improving the properties beyond the neighborhood's current standards and screen more strictly to try to bring up the neighborhood value.

Yea here's one of my rental numbers, which was bought last June.Purchase:26,000rehab:5,000Taxes:1500/yearInsurance:500/yearrented:908/month section 8 tenant build:1986Sqft:1260The rehab was give or take around $5,000 but this is because for Section 8 the inspection is very detailed and had to make some fixes to get it to government standards.

Two, is this something that is standard in short sale?

Insist that the site visit and data analysis portions of teh Phase I be done by an "environmental professional" as defined in EPA All Appropriate inquiries regulation and the ASTM E1527 standard.

There are some cases where you would want to do this, but it is beyond the scope of this post.Liability (This is primarily a state designation although it is fairly standardized across all the states):Sole proprietorships and general partnerships are essentially a person(s) acting as a business provides no liability shield.Any company of any form can have the veil pierced and lose the liability shield if it is not treated as a separate entity from the persons owning the owning the business.

I'll stick to my nice C class areas with quality blue collar tenants.

This is a standard clause.