One of the biggest risks of investing via SDIRA is breaking the firewall between the SDIRA and you - committing a prohibited transaction, mixing funds, providing your SDIRA a service, other things like that.Buying a property on your own makes that very difficult.

I have a detached garage which is more than three feet from the main structure, however the roofs of the two structures are touching. Does the wall in the garage need to be fire rated? I don't know of the three foot r...

The sheet rock went up, but hasn't been mudded...parts need to come down to place firewall protection.I'm looking for individuals or a team that can help me get permits and finish the work. 

I'll do that tonight, when I'm no longer behind my corporate firewall.

Between hidden framing issues, hidden electrical/plumbing issues, code compliance issues (smoke detectors, firewalls, etc), nice-to-haves (landscaping, etc), it's very easy to go 10% over a hard bid from a contractor.In the future, I'd recommend that if you budget is $160K, you try to negotiate a hard bid closer to $130K, and then -- as Rick suggested -- have a secret contingency budget of $30K.

This is a bit of extra paperwork and cost, but creates firewalls between properties so in the case of a lawsuit, the plaintiff can only go after what is in one LLC bucket. 

If someone wants to sue and you do not have much if they win then let them make a run at you.You are building firewalls.

That means squat because no one ever even showed me how to type, yet I can write programs, and probably get into your computer if I wanted to even with a firewall and virus prot. 15 years of trying is a long schooling!

What anti virus/ firewall do you all use?

There was a firewall that kept things from spreading.We have a $1000 deductible, so if they find damage I assume that will come out of our pocket?