Sounds to me like you have some serious leverage to renegotiate IF you want to.

My wife and I are newbies, so please bear with me.If I understand, a participant can defer up to 18K to a self directed, and a corporation can defer a profit sharing amount of 25%, including the employee deferral, of $60K (variances to rules if single LLC, older etc)So if I wanted to leverage for a flip this year - how would the mechanics work? 

I guess that should give me more leverage in the future when screening tenants, as long as I live there at least part-time.

I'm interested in being able to leverage equity to start investing with.

Unfortunately the greater Seattle area prices are so high that I can't really find a good cash flow property, and I feel like I would be over-leveraging myself if I tried to invest in the local market.

. - You are presumably going to be leveraging yourself even further on a product that could go to rates as high as 6%/7%/8% and so on.

My credit is excellent and overall I'm in a pretty sound financial situation to leverage mortgages.  

On your first deal that you need traditional leverage, did you all have to personally guarantee the loan?

However when gold can be used as a currency the way this technology allows, why not use both?

To me, debt isn't cash and if it can be leveraged, yet the project still cash flow, isn't that the definition of infinite cash on cash return?