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All Forum Posts by: Adriana Vergara

Adriana Vergara has started 5 posts and replied 18 times.

Post: Listing states: "Seller to provide Limited warranty deed"

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10

Hello ALl! I just saw the following description on a listing> "Seller to provide Limited warranty deed."

What does it mean? 

The house apparently has been under contract 4 different times... and it just came back to the market. 

I'm a new real estate apprentice... What does that statement mean? it sounds bad for me... but... how bad it is? or not a big deal?

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Andrea D.:

@Adriana Vergara

Do not steal from your future self with an IRA distribution.

You need to start a hustle. Side hustle, you need to increase your income. If this is getting your own real estate license, it’s only 63 hours (at least here in Florida), you are doing the work for your boyfriend. You now know how. Get 100% of your sales, not just 20%. He may not be happy, but put yourself first.

Go to thrift stores in the best area of town and buy expensive clothes with tags for pennies on the dollar and list them on poshmark or Mercari. Save every one of those dimes and put them directly towards your cards.

Get a bartending job. Or remote cold calls. Stash cash - 100% towards your credit cards.

Although I don’t believe on Dave Ramsey’s policy against debt leverage when it comes to real estate, start listening to some of his podcasts. Start the baby steps. Just to put yourself into the position to start investing in real estate. Til you blast this debt, you don’t have money to put towards real estate. Your interest rates are too high. Returns on real estate investments are awesome, but they are not guaranteed 20% + which you are currently paying on this debt.

Andrea, thank you for your answer!! Everything was very valuable but this part... “Get 100% of your sales, not just 20%. He may not be happy, but put yourself first.” that part I really appreciate it... Ive heard this a couple of times from my closest friends and just today I decided that I’m gonna do it. 

Thanks you so much for pointing  that out as well 🙏🏻💪🏻.

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Jonathan R McLaughlin:

continuing here. If you paid everything off would still have about 30K in retirement savings and now you are 35, single with a 30K retirement account and no crippling debt. And you can start taking those debt payments and putting them into real estate or into a retirement account to catch up.

If you are paying yourself 3K a month even with some robust commissions you are unlikely to be in a very high tax bracket (15%?) even after a withdrawal. Without the penalty and a 3 year window to spread out the income hit? I'd be shocked if you took much of a hit at all. So the top amount % you should have to pay is 25% but over 3 years (see above covid stuff) and you might be looking at much, much less. Consult a CPA

Not pleasant, but I would still do it if I was in your shoes. You need money to make money and you are laying out too much of it to cover old debts. I know the rule of thumb is never to touch it, but I think your situation qualifies. If you are betting on yourself give yourself the best odds of success. Good luck!

Thank you Jonathan!! I love to hear all  opinions!

Sometimes I think that I wouldn’t  mind if I have to start from zero but with no debts.

At least this time I have valuable information and a bunch of amazing people here in BP to learn from. 

But before following my gut I really wanted to check all options, and Im learning a lot from just one question. Bless you all!! 

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Dan Schwartz:

@Adriana Vergara Glad to help.

SDIRAs are simply an IRA with a custodian that allows for a much broader range of investment opportunities (within the confines of IRS regulations, of course). An IRA opened at TD Ameritrade can invest only in what TD Ameritrade offers (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and for some investors, options and futures). An SDIRA allows for investment in all of that plus real estate, lending, cyrpto currency, precious metals, etc., so long as it doesn't create a prohibited transaction.

If you have a burning desire to come back to the IRA structure in the future, ask your payroll provider if you can include an in-service distribution option, and what the ramifications of that would be. An in-service distribution allows a participant to rollover 401k assets to another plan (like an SDIRA) prior to separating from the company. This may or may not be worth the trouble right now, but it doesn't hurt to ask while you still can.

Good luck, and keep us posted!

I’m learning so much over here!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻 can’t thank you enough. Thank you for your time!

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Dmitriy Fomichenko:

@Adriana Vergara

If you are self-employed - you are eligible for truly self-directed Solo 401k plan. It has several major advantages over SD IRA such as contribution limit 10X higher of an IRA (up to $58,000 for 2021), exempt from UBIT on leveraged real estate, no custodian needed = checkbook control and low cost, ability to invest tax-free utilizing Roth sub-account, and most important for you is loan feature. You can borrow from your 401k plan up to 50% of the balance for any need. This would be much better than taking early distribution and paying taxes and penalties as a result. 

Dmitriy I just read your article about the solo 401k, amazing information!! Thank you for that.

so, I have a Non-profit and an LLC (Scorp), both related with my soccer academy. Just this year I started payroll in the scorp (2 employees me and my partner) my understanding is that I will not be able to go with the solo 401k with the scorp, Correct? Is there any option for nonprofits?
 

On the other hand, I keep working as a 1099 for my boyfriend who is a Realtor. That’s how I could quialify to creat a solo 401K?


what’s better tho... opening a solo 401K or a regular 401K with the scorp? 

The main purpose is transfering my IRA so that I can get a loan from my funds.

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Caroline Gerardo:

@Dmitriy Fomichenko I can refer you to a method to borrow against an IRA or 401k


Caroline, please share tihs with us!! 





Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Dan Schwartz:

@Caroline Gerardo BUT, since you are self-employed you could open a solo 401(k) and roll your IRA into that. Then you could take a loan of 50% or $50,000 (whichever is less, but in your case will be 50%, or the $34K you need) from the 401(k) and apply it to your credit card debt. I think (and @Dmitriy Fomichenko could fill in or correct the facts here) that you will need to amortize that loan over 5 years and charge yourself a fair interest rate.  That said, the interest rate will be less than all of the above credit cards, especially the non-AMEX ones.  Your payment on a 5 year amortization will be high, but it might be the hurdle you need to jump in order to both free yourself from this situation AND have a monthly payment in your budget that you'll be able to re-direct productively once you've paid off the loan.

You are currently paying $382 a month in interest alone.  To make a 1% minimum monthly payment, you are paying another $343 in principal, and it will take 20+ years to pay it off (I haven't done the math, but your statements will show you this.).  That's north of $700 a month, which is higher than your 401K loan payment would be at 3.25%.  And at 3.25%, your interest costs would be less than $100 a month and falling, with 85% or so of your payment going towards principal payback that you can get working for you again in your 401K.

And, the 50% of the 401K you didn't loan to yourself will still be working for you in whatever investments you choose.

So what if this takes 5 years?  At the end you are debt-free, have $700 a month in your budget to invest as you please, you haven't lost 30% or more of your capital to taxes (remember that the amount you withdraw is also income and will affect your tax bracket!), you haven't forfeited your retirement account to pay off your 30-year-old-self's debts, and you should be ready to rock!  Just never put something on a credit card again that you don't intend to pay off at the end of the month, regardless of the teaser rate or the rewards offered.

Good luck!

Edit: you might not be able to open a solo 401(k) depending on the nature of your soccer school business.  Namely, if it has employees.  But, you could look at creating a 401K plan for you and your employees and doing the same thing outlined above.  It's a different beast, but done right it will still be well-worth it.  I don't believe you HAVE to match employee contributions unless you are looking to safe harbor your own contributions to the 401K.  So, maybe you could create it, offer it to the employees, make no contributions yourself (for now, at least), and implement the above strategy.  It would go through your custodian at that point, since it wouldn't be a solo 401K.

Dan, I think you just gave me the solution right here.

I already asked my payroll company about creating a 401k to transfer my IRA and then getting the loan. APR will be 4.5% and aince Ill be paying it back to myself, it makes so much more sense.

Also... hoy important is to pick the institution to have the 401K? How should I pick where to have it?

Someone else suggested a SDIRA... do you known  anything about this?

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Caroline Gerardo:

Since you are self employed I'm guessing your net income is zero, which means the debt doesn't mean anything in terms of debt to income ratios... If income shows zero, it doesn't matter.

You will pay more than 10% on withdrawal of IRA - depends on what tax bracket and state you are but probably like 28%. Do not withdraw IRA to pay cards. If you are in terrible hardship you can get a loan against the IRA but don't do it to pay credit cards.

Get a second job, maybe something for cash and skinny down on what you spend to nothing. Start paying Chase and Wells an extra $500 a month and make all the other regular payments early. 

What you can to to get in position to qualify for a loan is start to make ALL deposits into one and only one account. After 12 months we can review what income you show, and you should then only have AMEX and Discover with smaller balances. 

Hello Caroline. Thank you so much for the time that you took to answer my question. You just gave me so much valuable information.

Question, do you know anything about SDIRA? Someone suggested transfering the IRA to a SDIRA but I know nothing about it.

What’s your opinion about this?

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10

@Dave E. Hello Dave, thank you!! I will definitely will search for that option!! Thanks for your time!

Post: Should I pay debt with my IRA? or should I invest the IRA?

Adriana VergaraPosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Posts 20
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Jesse Rivera:

How long have you had your soccer business?

Hello Jesse, since 2017