As long as you can service the debt I see it as necessary.

My background is in emergency services (including fire department) and I've done victims' services for a Fire Department for a number of years.

You can estimate a specific job, like replacing carpet, or a project, like a bathroom or kitchen rehab.Here is the site.https://www.homewyse.com/services/index.htmlIf it's in the ballpark, then it seems like it could be a useful tool as you're getting started and looking to run numbers to make offers before you have a lot of deals and experience under your belt.

I also live in Mission Viejo, am an out-of-state multifamily investor and host a real estate investing podcast. 

it is also difficult to engage in wholesaling with your IRA without providing services to the IRA, which may be why your current custodian is not willing to process such deals.Short term gap funding to an unrelated wholesaler or other such strategies may better fit within an IRA, where everything needs to be very much at arm's length, and where passive income is tax favored (as opposed to trade or business income such as this).

@George Evans They are not in cincy, but they I have heard good things of Amanda Holbrook's company, specialized IRA services.

Or is the copy of the lease is available if I select to electronically sign it through their services?

Try re running these numbers monthly, including vacanacy for reno and expense for debt service.

Long story short.... your weekly rent was likely not paying for your hosts cigarettes.

Most of the people you mention host their own small groups (with Kim Tucker's being the largest - anywhere from 100-200 most meetings).