Whether it's a good strategy depends on a lot of other factors, but should (ultimately) come down to the numbers from a financial perspective.

I see this perspective giving investors as whole a bad name.

Always interesting to hear the perspective of peers. 

I'm fairly sure that the general consensus here isn't too far off from the perspective of the article when it comes to homeownership.

My perspective on it is that, since it's a learning disability, it's required me to work that much harder to make the grade my entire life.

Puts things into great perspective with the O&G slowdown.

Even if it doesn't directly introduce you to someone in REI it will almost certainly give you a nice perspective on the world of finance, which has its place in REI.

Streamline loan allows you to select individual tradesman, and NO HUD consultant.So the con is more from the perspective of how a rehab loan works.

Thank you for the perspective. 

@KANE WHITESIDEThe only thing from a 401k perspective that can "go wrong" is that you fail to make payments in the required fashion and the amount of the loan is treated as a taxable distribution, with an additional 10% penalty for early distribution if you are under age 59 1/2.As such, you want to be very sure that you will have the ability to repay the loan, and structure your real estate deal accordingly, with plenty of reserve capital in the event you have an extended vacancy or significant repair expense.You also want to keep in mind that you put that money into the plan tax-deferred, and will be replacing it with after-tax money, so the income you receive personally needs to be a significant return on investment to offset the negative ROI equal to your tax rate that the plan is experiencing.An alternative would be to use the plan itself to make the investment in property.