This allows you to invest in real estate without triggering the 10% early withdrawal penalty or income taxes, and the gains can grow tax-deferred (or tax-free in a Roth IRA).

I personally recommend working with a CPA who prioritizes integrity and accurate tax return filings, so that if you're ever audited, you won’t face back taxes, penalties, or interest.

Not only do they lose the retirement balance, but also they incur a 10% premature withdrawal penalty.  

Even when they misrepresented the deal and are 2 years behind on payments they’ve faced no penalties.

These efforts to avoid paying Vrbo compensation are a marketplace violation and may result in penalties, including termination.

You can take a distribution from the IRA, pay the taxes (plus penalties for premature distributions), and then use the funds as you see fit.

Prepayment penalties are a thing of the past, so dump your bitcoin into paying down the balance (and, possibly, dropping the PMI) after the fact - no one sources where you make your normal monthly mortgage payments from.It's going to be in limbo and a giant "it depends" until such time as someone opens a Bitcoin clearing house that does all the little compliance and PATRIOT Act things that Wells Fargo and Fidelity do, or (more likely) until such time as Fidelity or Wells Fargo adds Bitcoin to their financial service offerings. 

If you are only doing a 1-2 year lease option, then I'd recommend you just buy down the prepayment penalty to 1-year and just eat it if the borrower executes early. 

I was under the impression that the home needed to be auctioned, and any profit over and above the value of the note, penalties and legal fees was owed back to the borrower. 

If you are caught there is a penalty of six months of rent maximum.