Gigi Ochoa
Retired Prospect For Our Rental - How To Verify Income?
Hi,We have a retired teacher that wants to rent our unit. Everything checks out great about her - she even wants a 2 year lease, but how do we verify income? She showed us her retirement checks (those alone do not m...
Courtney Barnes
Kissimmee/ Davenport Vacation Short Term Rental to Retirement house
Hello, I am just starting my research and would like to know if my goal sounds possible for the area. My husband and I would like to buy a 3-4 bedroom house single level in either Kissimmee or Davenport area between 4...
Cole Hagen
Is Scott Trench Wrong? Retirement Plans vs Real Estate
I just finished Scott Trench's book "Set for Life" and let me start by saying it is a awesome read and I fully recommend it to anyone and everyone.In the book Scott bashes on typical retirement plans such as roth IRAs...
Chris C.
Cash Out retirement fund!! Is it stupid for me??
This flies in the face of everything that we have ever learned about retirement accounts. So I want to start this by stating that it is stupid for 99% of the people out there to cash out retirement accounts but I wou...
Ana Hyler
I have enough now to retire in 5 years!
We started investing 5 years ago… and we’re really proud of our accomplishments so far. In 5 years we went from being tenants to owning our residence plus 19 rental doors! Both my husband and I still have our ful...
Mindy Jensen
Zeona McIntyre Show 229 - Retirement Through Short Term Rentals
In today's excellent episode of The BiggerPockets Podcast, Zeona McIntyre shares how her investments in short term rentals - some local and some long distance - have provided her with enough income to retire early and...
Geoff Stuhr
Converting retirement accounts (401k/IRA) into real estate assets
I posted this on LinkedIn and also felt like it could be helpful on BiggerPockets - I get asked from time to time about converting retirement accounts such as 401k/IRA into real estate assets... Wall Street often does...
Matthew Yrungaray
Buying a portfolio of houses from a retiring owner
I am looking at approaching a couple that owns a dozen or so investment properties. The wife wants to sell and the husband is unsure. I was trying to come up with a scenario that would be a win-win for both parti...
Account Closed
Why Buy Real Estate in Your (IRA) Retirement Accounts?
The single most powerful way to accumulate (and keep wealth) through real estate is to purchase it in your ROTH IRA account. Purchasing within a ROTH IRA is using "Post-Tax" dollars, in other words, you have already p...
James Tebelman
Invest less in Retirement funds to save for REI???
I am 30 years old and I have always put 5% towards my 401(k) (my employer matches 25 cents on the dollar) and both my wife and I max out our Roth IRAs each year ($5,500 each).One of my big goals is to retire early and...