After a grace period of one missed payment, the total amount owed under the plan will be deemed distributed.In either instance, making sure you are completing the proper due diligence and doing your research before making a loan from your retirement account will help ensure that you are following IRS guidelines and avoiding future penalties on your IRA.

On the flip side, if i do a cash out REFI right now....i get my hands on capital and lock it up now to ensure i have it.

@Dimitri Paspalaris ask your insurance broker to help ensure you have the appropriate coverage.  

They immigrated from Singapore a year ago, and had never lived in a townhouse.Should I make a visit to ensure the house is being taken care of, and they are not making mistakes and causing damage?

Learn from their mistakes by ensuring that your lease protects you from whatever happened to them.

The research and team building phases are essential, but ensuring you narrow down your search will keep you focused.

it will be our primary (and only) residence and we'll rent while work is being done.Goals are: 1) be able to leverage homestead exemption (need to clarify with the taxing authority if it needs to be in our names); 2) finance as much as possible (taking advantage of current rates)- putting just enough down to avoid PMI and ensure that we still get the "best" rates (assuming 20%); 3) making sure we have as many financing options as possible (going back to titling- if it's the name of a partnership and not individuals, does that limit us). 

I again sent the notice to my property manager and was told “we will contact the city and ensure the city sends us the notices and not you.”

I was just notified 47th Ward Alderman, Matt Martin, is introducing an ordinance in City Hall to “follow Los Angeles’ lead, and ensure that renters who are impacted by COVID-19 have 12 months to make rent payments without fear of late fees or eviction.”

To make this even worse, many landlords and investors feel compelled to sit on their money to ensure they have adequate reserves to weather the financial storm in the event that their tenants cannot perform.