That same house can produce 10 totally different answers based on who you ask and what their strategy and comfort level is. 

As I'm sure you know, a million in capital can produce a lot more income than that through real estate.  

., It ain't so :)  From the day you close the sale of your old property you have 45 days to produce a list of your potential replacement properties.

My lawyer states that title companies are basically the same and we can always back out based on what they produce. 

The tax burden is high, and I was wondering-if funding were not an issue-is there a way to invest in real estate and produce a book loss to offset taxes? 

The only investment that doesn't produce at least 15% ROI is one of my single family houses. 

If you can get a condo for the right dollars that will produce positive cash flow and have upside in a resale then that's the game you play.

Give me three or four bullet points on why each is better or worse.I'd like to give you 3 or 4 bullets but I only have 2.We stopped purchasing single family homes to hold because it always bugged us when a house was not producing cash flow because of a vacancy.  

I plan to calculate the investment cost at a point that even renting to a single family would produce some cash flow.

Essentially I would be into the property with no money down after a year and in five years own it free and clear and it would still be producing income that would go back into the ira.