The advantage was as long as we paid it back in full the withdrawal was not taxed as income and no penalty fee.

The advantage was as long as we paid it back in full the withdrawal was not taxed as income and no penalty fee.

It sounds to me that most if not all would take advantage of a great market and sell now. 

@Lake Ingle I do it all the time and it definitely gives you an advantage.

Schedule flexibility in your main profession is one of the biggest advantages one can have when getting into real estate.

You want to have enough profit to take advantage of the MOST IMPORTANT benefit of real estate which is depreciation. 

it means when the boss isn't in the store, all the employees slack off and take advantage. it applies 100% here. if you never go visit the house, how do you know it's even still there?

Possibly moving to one of the units in order to take advantage of lower down payment option. basically if there is an option to pay a lower interest I'd like to take advantage of it but I never done that before I'm trying to learn how to do it without getting screwed.

When you factor in the lack of risk with cash-only, it's probably more advantageous.

It gave the advantage of locking down a tenant so you didn't have the worry about having to regularly re-rent the property should the tenant give notice.