Are you also going to look to retirement accounts for funds?

After finishing the section on using retirement accounts to fund RE, I had only one major question:The income from buy-and-hold RE held in retirement accounts...I am assuming none could not be withdrawn from the account for income until traditional retirement age, correct (at least without some form of penalty or tax)?

There are lots of grouchy retired people who will report you to the city for anything less than perfect yard.  

My goal is to purchase the two best ones cash with a portion of my retirement money.

So another 10% on the $120k would bring me down to $81k to deposit into the Roth, not $93k.Losing a third of the fund to taxes and fees would really hurt.The question is... will $120k give me (at least) the same after tax income in retirement as $80k would without paying income tax.

I've also learned about using a Solo 401K to fund these purchases and I have a couple of questions about how that works.My situation is this: I'm retired and have my nest-egg in a traditional IRA.

I call it little NY as most of the folks are retired moving down.

Our original plan as advised by the previous CPA was to use his Solo K retirement to fund down payments and combine that with long term hard money loans but the new CPA said using a Solo 401(k) to invest is a bad idea (something about the taxes being higher than potential income?)

As she's past the age of retirement, she wants to extend the property to us.

He wants to retire and I don't know if he could be flexible.