Can I use my 401k to buy an investment property? Long term rental, 20% down, positive cash flow

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Tenants will trash it.

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Lol seems anecdotal. My other long term tenants are actually sprucing up the place and adding value!

You have to check you’re 401k plan. There are some that allow for general 401k loans and primary residence 401k loans. Usually the only distinction is the life of the loan.

General 401k loans can have up to a 5 years to pay it back and primary residence loans can go up to 10 years.

Since this is an investment property it probably won’t qualify for the primary residence loan, unless you go down the house hack/owner occupied route.

If you take out a general 401k loan you can do whatever you want with the money.

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I don’t believe you can borrow from a 401k for a non-primary residence. But I do believe you can use a self directed IRA to buy real estate (granted I’ve heard you can’t have debt against the property, so it needs to be cash).

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I interpreted the question as asking if the 401k could hold the rental property. Obviously you could cash out (and pay tax and penalties) and then buy the property, but that’s not what I thought was asked.

You can borrow against your 401k

For a primary residence, you can borrow 50% of your balance or up to $50k, whichever is less. But I don’t believe you can do that for an investment property.

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No, you can’t. Probably some IRA you can

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