Well.......Welcome to the boards!! Better late than never.
Congrats on your upcoming retirement. I will be following you out in December!
There have been several posts about the new TSP withdrawal rules (mine for example) but it doesn’t look like they will be out till late 2019. So that doesn’t help you, except to know that they are coming.
You can take out 1 in-service withdrawal, which is penalty free after age 59.5. For now that will leave you with 1 final withdrawal after you retire (until the aforementioned new rules get implemented). But if it was Traditional TSP (as opposed to Roth TSP), you WILL have to pay taxes at your 2018 rate. You CAN roll it into a self-directed IRA and avoid the tax hit, until you take it out of the self directed IRA to use as your down payment.
See. https://www.tsp.gov/PDF/formspubs/tspfs10.pdf
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