Now the challenge here is that, aluminum, electrically conductive metal such as copper blocks radio waves.

Challenges?

This may seem like an unusual question for this community but I'm sure many of you have or are experiencing a similar situation.  I have one parent who has retired and the other a few years away and are quickly findin...

Challenges?

Challenges?

Challenge I’m running into is that There seem to be a fair amount of 4 to 8 unit properties but the financing is very different depending on that range.

@Richard Weinberg1) If you have a Solo 401k that supports a 401k participant loan you can simply take a 401k participant loan up to 50% of the balance not to exceed $50,000.2) The notion of loaning funds from your self-directed IRA to someone else (and vice verse) could easily be challenged as a step transaction where the step of loaning to someone else would be ignored and the transaction would be analyzed as a loan from your IRA to yourself which is prohibited.

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I like doing my own due diligence and enjoy the challenge. 

I definitely realize it would be a challenge to find a duplex or something here that would cash flow but I would be happy with a first house hack even if I still had to pay up to $500 out of pocket each month.