A range is what should be in the engagement letter.

So, assess your risk tolerance and you may want to do some research on if there's any sort of gap policy or policy you can obtain temporarily - Proper Insurance and CBIZ are the two major players in the STR insurance biz, but I'm not sure if they write anything other than a full policy.  

Here's what it says (you can research the other 49 states if you wish):''Real estate broker'', hereinafter referred to as broker, any person who for another person and for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, or with the intention or in the expectation or upon the promise of receiving or collecting a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, does any of the following:sells, exchanges, purchases, rents or leases, or negotiates, or offers, attempts or agrees to negotiate the sale, exchange, purchase, rental or leasing of any real estate, or lists or offers, attempts or agrees to list any real estate, or buys or offers to buy, sells or offers to sell or otherwise deals in options on real estate, or advertises or holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting or leasing real estate, or assists or directs in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation or completion of any agreement or transaction which results or is intended to result in the sale, exchange, purchase, leasing or renting of any real estate.That's air tight.The only legal way to wholesale is in MA to double-close. 

They were players with nothing to lose and I was an idiot.

Here are the areas I am excited to learn and engage in discussions in:Buying a homeListing homes for sale or leaseFirst-Time Home BuyingInvestment Property SearchInvestment FinancingProperty ManagementI'd love to learn more about what your investment goals are and perhaps we can learn and grow together!

There are plenty of ways your IRA can grow very well by not engaging in any kind of self dealing.You cannot buy shares of Apple in your IRA and then decide to shift that value to yourself in any fashion. 

It's unlikely that a CPA/EA will review your return for free or inexpensively if they know beforehand that you're not going to engage them if no errors are found or no value can be added. 

@Trever Nicoll Both you and the IRA individual will want to engage a competent tax CPA/EA and an attorney...but one idea is to form a special purpose entity (e.g.

My partner is much more of a high-assertive manager-type and does much better dealing with game-players like you have, and will tell them what's going to happen in no-uncertain terms.  

We engaged one when executing a lease purchase with a reluctant seller and they earned every penny we paid on a house that reaped us a very nice return on resale.