What is your objective, to be a top agent, simply to use the license for your own investments, or a bit of both?

With this foundation you should be able to basically assess any small business operation, meaning you can better judge what commercial tenant you might select.

So far everything is self-financed (savings and credit) and no liens on the property.

I'm also curious how you are only cash flowing $146 on $800 in rent if you self manage and have long term tenants that don't have any maintenance issues.What do you cash flow on the nicer houses?

The answer to that is to invest in the markets that give you the best chance to achieve whatever your objective is, so start with a clear objective.

The property is listed for $65K and the previous tax assessments were $83K according to zillow.

The realtor should work with the seller to let him know that the contract will be assigned to another end buyer.Is that a fair assessment?

Whether that makes economic sense is also unknown to us since the varables to assess the idea are not present.

I"m also using the county assessor site to get assessment price from there and compared to those prices.

My question is this:If I have enough money cash to put the 3.5% down on a first home purchase, Would it make sense to save the IRA money (if I moved it to a self directed IRA) for later investment purchases?