And she's hardly saving money if she's using an electric space heater as the only source.

Often times you will pay much more in taxes than if you pulled the money out, paid the taxes and penalty and then started investing in real estate.For example, with the financing you mentioned, the IRA must pay taxes on the portion of the profit earned by financing. 

That’s our concern about it penciling out on paper but the reality might be that it ends up costing us money.

You want an investment that pays for itself, including mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance, and even some money set aside for a reserve to cover vacancies and capital expenditures.

It's a big money maker for architects, engineers, and contractors, but not a huge opportunity for investors, nor should it be. 

Obey TorahBest, Larry Cheshier That’s interesting Larry but the issue becomes interest rates to borrow the money wouldn’t make this a valid choice.

Instead, the answer was to make a new money making market off of it.

My broker advised me to "bite the bullet" and close the deal, telling me that I should be glad I wasn’t losing money on the deal.

Nate I would use a low money down owner occ 2-4 unit loan which allows the highest DTI possible.

Hello All, I have a client asking if they could buy a portfolio of 5 properties (at a "packaged deal" rate) and sell off two of them to recoup some of the initial down money needed to buy them.