If not, do you have a home equity line, access to private lenders or hard money lenders to fund it? 

So that is someone else who would need access. 

Hi Bruce - with a faster option do you find it hard to get enough access to the house to accurately assess rehab?

We are accessing our percentage of STR to LTR.

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The accessibility and affordability of drivable vacation rental markets is very difficult for more expensive fly-to markets to compete with in any sort of economic downturn. 

Anyone out there have access to a PLOC and have any tips?

I'm concerned that if i do the loan now, in a few days the markets could creep up slightly giving me access to more 401k.

In order to have checkbook control, the IRA account will need to be at a trust company that will allow the IRA to invest in an LLC (where you will be the manager and your IRA will be member - an as manager you will have checkbook access to the LLC bank account).

You can't hold his personal belongings hostage until you get there to let him have access.