What to do with inherited Roth IRA
My long-lost closeted lesbian great aunt passed away, leaving us with a healthy windfall of approximately $125k in an inherited Roth IRA. It is my understanding according to Fidelity that 1) I do not need to do required minimum distributions but 2) I do need to cash it out within 10 years.
This does mean it needs to completely dissolve as an IRA correct? So I need to convert it to cash and then funnel that into my other index funds / ETFs as needed. Which is fine but I have a couple questions:
Does it really matter if I do that now or in 10 years? I already settled another account of hers that left us with about $80k in cash so we’re already taking the income tax hit on that this year. Am I correct that I will not pay a penalty on dissolving this inherited IRA? I also won’t pay taxes because it’s inherited and she held it for a very long time?
And then going further down the rabbit hole - we are interested in moving next year to a bigger house, will mortgage underwriters have a meltdown if we have such a huge “income” bolus this year? Should I wait to stagger the Roth IRA dissolving until after we get a house?
We have no financial burdens otherwise. We make almost $300k annually as of this year, cars are paid off, no student loans, no credit card debt, 401ks are thriving, and we have about $360k in savings. In our early 30’s.