The RMD situation, like the required minimum distributions, you don't want to have to take distributions from an illiquid asset. If you write a check for any of that, you just turned all your IRA into a non- IRA. Off-directed IRA, every I has to be dotted, every T has to be crossed. It is massively, massively, massively burdensome, administratively burdensome. And it hurts a lot more than a hand slap.
#449: Jackie is a 42-year-old paralegal with two rental properties. She wants to buy three more. She asks for Paula’s thoughts about today’s economy. Should she buy under these economic conditions?
Jen’s husband will retire with a pension that pays twice their living expenses. Does she still need her own retirement account?
Rachael just bought a duplex, which she wants to househack. But she’s having second thoughts. Did she bite off more than she can chew?
“Minouche” is a return caller with new information: she believes that borrowing from Dad is her only path to home ownership. Does this change Paula and Joe’s advice to her? (And is it even true?) And Molly, a concerned mom, shares some thoughts about this situation.
Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these four questions in today’s episode.
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