The IRS has specific rules and regulations in place to prohibit the SDIRA from providing you with any current benefit. 

The firms focus is in commercial property and I have learned an incredible amount about navigating city and county regulations, dealing with complicated leases, permit running and expediting and so much more.

@Jaysen Medhurst Hit on some very good points when navigating this type of deal, especially in CT where the zoning regulations tend to be pretty strict. 

@Yulya Marucya I think Midwest City is a good market to invest in rentals but wouldn't recommend Del City, they have some pretty strict regulations when it comes to rentals that would be on top of section 8 regulations.

(a) Any law, ordinance or government regulation (including but not limited to building and zoning laws, ordinances or regulations) restricting, regulating, prohibiting or relating to (1) the occupancy, use, or enjoyment of the land; . . . except to the extent that . . . a notice of an encumbrance resulting from a violation . . . has been recorded in the public records at Date of Policy.   

Her mom has an old lamp with an incandescent bulb and multiple other devices including a cpap machine plugged into the same power strip, an old power strip.

If they are going to be a passive investor while you do all the work, this may be treated as a security under the rules and regulations of the SEC.

Well, thanks to 2009/2010, banks made a lot of loans based on hope and faith and making pretty risky loans that ended up kinda badly.So now they need to have a dis-interested (ie no financial involvement beyond his fee) party to give a professional (ie licensed and regulated) OPINION on the value of the property.However, appraisers are only giving an opinion or educated guess which can be wrong.  

"investing in a holding company" sounds like a syndication, and that's a security regulated by the SEC. 

You probably got what is called a "conforming loan" therefore the loan will be sold into the secondary market and will be subject to random audits, so there is some risk in doing this, but from my experience as a Bank Regulator, I have never seen or heard of a loan being called due to this.