Many of you have already turned in your chapters for the Community Book, some people have let me know theirs is coming, and others have mentioned they won't have time - but I'm just sending this to everyone, so ignore if it doesn't apply to you :)Great stuff coming in so far - but I'd love to see another few articles - so I'm going to postpone putting this guide together until September 13th - (yes, Friday the 13th!)

I have my presentation ready, but if it makes it easier for you, you can postpone mine until 2013.

The only issue I had was their need to postpone my original closing date to do a land survey.

@Danielle Price - There are a number of institutions that provide non recourse loans to eitherSDIRA (self directed IRA) orIRA LLC that holds your SDIRAI was going to get a loan for my SDIRA but that got postponed for a bitHere are a couple of lenders recommended by my attorney (Who is one of experts in the country on SDIRA)North American Savings Bank - Jason Zookwww.iralender.com - Roger St PierreKeep in mind that non recourse loans are generally only 50-60%LTV and you need to keep usually 10-15% reserves in your acct at all times.

Then you have capital gains taxes, which is generally 15% (for non millionaires anyhow) if you hold onto it for a year or more, otherwise it could be taxed at income tax rates. 1031 exchanges are a popular way of postponing capital gains taxes, but they won´t be of much use to you as a non US national.  

You would have to close with cash or private/hard money that could close in 4-5 days or so too, you would need the homeowners permission or get them to order their payoff from the foreclosing attorney as well.This is all assuming the owner has equity in the property, if they dont, you could try REALLY hard to get a postponement for them to consider a short sale.  

That said you can still sell a rental and do a 1031 exchange sou you postpone the tax gain.

Now, though, we are facing postponing trips in order to save for an investment property.

I need to personally think of some strategies on how to sell these 2 pieces of land.2) The closing on our Chicago Rd, Dolton property has been postponed by 1 week because the money of the buyer did not get cleared by her bank due to the holidays (and because the buyer came in so late in the game, our attorney Kurt was not able to get the documents prepared in time).

He's been hitting me up with postponements and cancellations though.