Fortunately for me, I started investing a time in the market where everything went up.  

(larger would require fire sprinklers). 

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. 

We live in Kihei now since the Lahaina fire destroyed our home, office and an investment condo.

But since I am in the fire area of Altadena I will be very busy rebuilding houses for the next decade for me "day job".

And they keep their jobs because there is no barrier to entry, and they can't fire themselves. 

My agent was a very nice older lady, but no idea about investing, it all worked out and once the first rent checks started coming in started gaining some confidence.

Hello, my name is Trevor and I’ve recently took in the interest of wholesaling properties, I have never networked before so I’d like to make friends and potential clients in which we can both help eachother out some. 

Chicago is a lower appreciation market but with the trends we've been seeing with increased rates of hurricanes on the east coast and fires in the west, I do think long-term we will see some migration to the Midwest.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.