I'd venture to guess that even in the turn-key world, averages are meaningless.

(Obvious I don't know your taxable income to make that call.)If you withdraw, you do have alot more flexibility investing with non-qualified funds, such as optimizing with leverage and having access to much better financing terms/rates, that can give you a substantially higher ROI than you might achieve in a retirement account.By pulling funds from the IRA/401K, you have also walked out of the casino of guessing on current vs future tax rates (with $100 trillion of federal liabilities, tax rates are quite conceivably going UP).

I guess my real problem is a gov. that loans money (they printed and devalued mine) to private entity and does not use said money to help people, but instead found another ave. to profit off tax payers.

Generally, the properties that are FNMA and FMAC that give OO a first chance are underpriced to the market already; meaning, this is the bank's way of offering great deals to OO without having to worry about investors scooping them up.While I agree it's annoying, my guess is that if FNMA and FMAC were to make these available to investors at the same time as OO, they starting list prices would be a good bit higher, as they know there would be more competition.So, you're probably not losing out on as many good deals as you think you are...

but i can always list it on MLS i guess and hook up with some agents in the area to start things off with.

I call it "swag" scientific wild a$$ guess.

I guess no one has your answer Rich.Here is what I found on the net.

I would hazard a guess that low income folks are more likely to get in over their head or not know how to handle their assets.

Given the facts above we'd be surprised if the title company won't remove the exception, but I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.

I took my best guess at creating a repair estimate for this house, which is detailed below.