@Julian BuickThe good thing about Roth conversions is that you can convert all in one year or a little each year.

I'm also trying to purchase a new primary home simultaneously, while holding onto my current primary and converting it to a rental.

I hope to convert it into a rental soon.

@Libbie Grant Investor tip for Anacortes: find a house that is zoned R2 for duplex (most all of the old homes in the desirable Old Town and around the schools and hospital) and convert a garage or basement into a legal dwelling.

Last year I converted an IRA to a Solo 401k and so far I've purchased one house and funded one private loan with the money.

Few other things were on this deal: As he couldnt sell, he was asking me to convert a den into a bedroom without permit and then sell it.

A roofer, foundation guy and HVAC (both furnace and converting from window air to central A/C) all got a profitable job out of it too.

We'd like to sell it and use the proceeds to buy a new primary residence and then either convert our existing primary residence to a rental or sell it and buy some different rental units.

We all have different strengths and things to bring to the table (I've done wholesale/option deals/Licensed | Partner A: Mobile home investor/note investor | Partner B: Wholesaler/Licensed/ Small portfolio...) but....As of right now, things have slumped, and we have no idea what to do now or what the next step is We market by: 1,000 pieces of mail a week (Which BARELY converts to anything, we get more calls asking to get removed from the list than leads.), scrubbing the public records for notice of defaults (a list you have to manually do as our county doesn't have the records online), bandit signs (but 3 wholesale players have entered our market and take down every sign we put up), door knocking (Which takes up too much time).

I don't think their is a magic bullet though, I just think you gotta try it all and see which converts the best.