@Gregory A.A 10% early withdrawal penalty will apply to the portion of withdrawalsfrom your Roth TSP that are attributable to earnings if you separate from your federal job before the year in which you turn 55.Contributions should be penalty and tax free.

Rental income and interest from loans made by the IRA to others are fully tax sheltered.If debt-financing such as a mortgage is used, the debt must be non-recourse and the use of debt does create a small tax liability on the portion of the income attributed to the non-IRA (borrowed) money. 

Often sellers feel comfortable marketing their home and discussing its attributes - but get lost when it comes to the paperwork.

In the present case, the transient rentals of petitioners' property likewise entailed sufficient activities to constitute a trade or business, and while these activities were conducted by B'Mae's, they are attributable to petitioners for purposes of determining whether petitioners were engaged in a tradeor business.”Again, that the taxpayer was “passive” did not matter.

"He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas" has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack.[1][2] The Latin has been unreliably attributed to Seneca[3][4], but not linked to any specific work.The quote has a large almost universally agreed meaning of "You should be cautious of the company you keep.

If debt-financed real estate is acquired via an IRA, any income attributable to such investment will generally be subject to unrelated debt finance income tax.5.

If debt-financed real estate is acquired via an IRA, any income attributable to such investment will generally be subject to unrelated debt finance income tax.5.

If debt-financed real estate is acquired via an IRA, any income attributable to such investment will generally be subject to unrelated debt finance income tax.5.

I think if most flippers are honest (10-years later looking back), they'd prefer to still own those homes as cash-flow positive rentals.I don't remember where I heard it (so I'll attribute it to MLK or Abraham Lincoln, maybe Warren Buffet) - "You can get rich flipping houses, but you get wealthy keeping them as rentals".

Hi Manu,With a six-unit property, and assuming the other attributes meet the constraints of the loan program, you may want to look into the Freddie Mac Small Balance Program ("Freddie SBL").