@Mario MoralesHow are you defining a "traditional agent"?

What are the challenges of passive investing as opposed to traditional real estate investing? 

I believe such plans are offered by specialty divisions of the mainstream financial services providers like CIBC & RBC.

This is done via a traditional cap table.

@Neil Smith,Yes, Traditional IRA can be rolled into Solo 401K.

Its more transactional than a traditional sale so you want to find out who the decision maker is and negotiate with them.

They were fine with my score (about 740), but have issue with the percentage of personal credit I am utilizing, so that discussion also petered out.Apparently, I have a lending profile right now, that is not attractive to mainstream lending programs.Any advice?

Once you do this conversion you can't change it back to a traditional long-term rental. 

.: Decided to try to use Obie on a new acquisition because my traditional insurance doesn’t do new policies in California and the insurance agent recommended by my loan officer just wasn’t working fast enough (CA Fair Plan seems to be at fault) to meet our closing calendar. 

It will be very difficult to cash flow in Austin using traditional LTR methods unless you put down a huge down payment.