Hi All,As I look at my options to finance my first RE deal, I was researching the early withdrawal penalty from TSP (Federal equivalent to 401K) and just learned that I can take out a TSP loan with no penalty, no tax impact and just have to pay it off with interest (seems to be 4-5% range right now) within 60 months. 

Please keep in mind for tax purposes LLC are passthrough by default.

I attempted to do taxes (married, filing jointly with my spouse) on turbo-tax.

You will get your own financing quotes, your own real estate taxes, and your own insurance quotes.  

It depends on the deal, but what we did was give the PMP (Private Money Partner) 50% equity in the property to fund the entire entry fee.Thats not necessarily a rule of thumb.This to me is a sliding scale based on the Cash on Cash return you can expect.Further , we offered our partner 75% of the cash flow until they are paid back in full, then the cash flow return drops down to 50%.All liabilities would also be split 50% with this partner.We called the company we use , who establishes our LLCs, opened an LLC, wrote up an operating agreement and a JV agreement that outlined all of our responsibilities for the asset.

Hey Ralph,Typically if you sell a property or any asset for a gain within 12 months, you pay capital gains tax at your tax rate. 

Is this a Single Family Rental - it can work for sure to start with negative cash flow - but this is a very very risky strategy - especially if there aren't other considerations like tax benefits on a larger portfolio or anything else I'm missing

Consider factors like potential tax implications and long-term financial benefits before making a decision.

If you know you want to get into STRs, find properties in your market or market of interest that are managed by Vacasa and Evolve that are underperforming and have guest feedback indicating the the customer service from the host was poor (as it usually is with the big national STR PMs), look up the owner's name on the county or city tax records, and cold call or text them.

You should leverage the paid off property that you have by doing a cash out refinance and then use that to buy a new build for $300-350k putting at least 25-30% down, you can find these that will rent for 7% (annual) of the purchase price and have very low property taxes and insurance.