If your vacation home happens to be located near a major event — like a PGA golf tournament or a big multi-day concert — you may be able to rent the place out for a short period even at high rates and pay zero federal income tax.Tax-smart year-end strategy: The more rental days between now and year-end, the better — as long as they don’t exceed 14 days for the year.Rented more than 14 days with substantial personal useYour vacation home falls into this category if you rent it for more than 14 days during the year and your personal use exceeds the greater of:(1) 14 days or (2) 10% of the rental days.

Is it smart and/or is it even possible to cash out a traditional IRA to buy investment properties.

an FHA loan is better for you because it usually comes with a lower interest rate and less money down, it may be smart to be pre-qualified for both and then you can decide which to use when making an offer.  

@Sharon Rosendahl getting a feel for the tenants is smart, and probably the “right” thing to do as well.

Or a ECONOMICALLY Smart thing to do

He is an excellent General Contractor with great credit rating (super smart... :-) )I have high income, low debt, analytical, detailed and good computer skills.We both live in Northern NH but I work in Arkansas and commute home to NH every 3 weeks.I have purchased a RI property in AR and we ware looking to buy in NH.What type of legal entity should we form?

1) the money from a refi is tax free. 2) say you bought smart and rehabbed the property and we're into it for 60k but the aappraisal came back at 100k.

Emotional intelligence is what keeps so many smart, hardworking people from reaching their full potential.

I'm trying to see if this is a smart option or should I lean more towards using a bank.

If the 2 girls were smart, they’d clean up for the other 3 and then just split the whole deposit refund between the 2 of them.