Self-Directed IRAs

Learn how to use your SDIRA to invest in your own and others' real estate projects — including important limitations that will keep you on good terms with Uncle Sam.

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Self-Directed IRAs

Learn how to use your SDIRA to invest in your own and others' real estate projects — including important limitations that will keep you on good terms with Uncle Sam.

Back To: All Topics  |  Investment Strategy

Real Estate Investing Versus 401(k)

Real Estate Investing Versus 401(k)

The most commonly accepted retirement plan in the United States today is the 401(k) plan. But have you considered real estate investment as a retirement vehicle? Let’s take a look at the two options. 401(k) Plans Interestingly, the 401(k) wasn’t even intended for use as a retirement vehicle when it ...
Leveraging Notes to Grow Your Retirement with Anne Marie Rogers

Leveraging Notes to Grow Your Retirement with Anne Marie Rogers

00:25:35 | This session explores how leveraging real estate notes can help grow your retirement savings. By investing in mortgage notes, individuals can generate passive income, achieve higher returns, and diversify their retirement portfolio, providing a stable and potentially lucrative path to long-term financial security Other Replays for this Event ...
Leveraging Notes to Grow Your Retirement

Leveraging Notes to Grow Your Retirement

00:32:00 | Want to find rapid growth in every area of your life and business? Resident Expert Cole Taylor shows you how! These 4 questions will both provide the path and set the pace for that growth ...
Is Real Estate Education Still Needed?

Is Real Estate Education Still Needed?

As an 18-year veteran and third-generation real estate investor, I feel like I have seen it all. I have seen the market cycles, both the ups and the downs. I have seen people make hundreds of millions, and I have seen some of the most gruesome losses. For me, real ...
Checkbook IRA, or Checkbook LLC?

Checkbook IRA, or Checkbook LLC?

A recent case has shed light on one of the riskiest retirement plan strategies offered by promoters. In McNulty v. Commissioner (157 T.C. 10), a U.S. Tax Court provided clarity to the scheme of using self-directed IRAs for personal investments. Although the rules are strict, they had become lax and ...
Think Realty Podcast #219 – Self-Directed IRA’s: Congress is Watching, Now What?

Think Realty Podcast #219 – Self-Directed IRA’s: Congress is Watching, Now What?

Using capital through a self-directed IRA is a beneficial strategy, but now that Congress is cracking down, what does that mean for you? What are the risks to using checkbook control? Our guest Derreck Long from Quest Trust Company discusses the strategies to make self-directed IRA’s work for you! To ...
Why Investing in Real Estate Is Better Than Stocks

Why Investing in Real Estate Is Better Than Stocks

When it comes to growing your investment portfolio, investors have two solid options for building their wealth: real estate and stocks. Both investment opportunities offer potential. The real estate and stock markets have performed well throughout 2021. After the global pandemic took a toll on the markets in 2020, they ...
6 Real Estate Investing Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss

6 Real Estate Investing Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss

Real estate is a multi-faceted investment playground. Investors from all walks of life can get in on the fun. Most traditional mindsets think that you can only invest in real estate if you have a lot of money. The truth is that there are also investing options with low input ...
Business Owners – Is Your Tax Sheltering Plan Bulletproof?

Business Owners – Is Your Tax Sheltering Plan Bulletproof?

Whether you are in the business of fix & flips or rental properties, we are all sitting in a world of unknowns right now. However, all politics aside, there are two things that are certain. First, is that the trillions of dollars in government aid will need to be paid ...
Four Reasons to Convert to a Self-Directed Roth IRA

Four Reasons to Convert to a Self-Directed Roth IRA

Some Investment Advisors tell their clients to not use a Roth IRA but a Traditional IRA instead. Their logic is with a Traditional IRA, the client gets a deduction for the amount of their contribution in the current year. Of course, in the future, the distributions from that IRA account ...
Self-Directed Fix and Flips

Self-Directed Fix and Flips

Maybe you are not new to real estate investing. Maybe you have fixed and flipped hundreds of properties or are a housing provider to hundreds of families nationwide. But have you ever thought of using your self-directed IRA or solo 401K to fix and flip an investment property? If you ...
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When a Potential Investor Says, “I Like the Project, But…”

Chances are, you've been in the situation where you’re talking with a potential investor for your next project. You know they are qualified, and they appear to be truly interested in your project. They are asking all the right questions: “What’s the total investment, expected return, time to completion?” Then ...
Investing in Real Estate with Your IRA with Jason DeBono

Investing in Real Estate with Your IRA with Jason DeBono

00:42:56 | This session explains how investors can use self-directed Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to diversify their portfolios by including real estate. The summary covers the benefits of using an IRA for real estate investments, such as tax advantages and the potential for higher returns, while also addressing the rules ...
Think Realty Podcast #154 – Move Your Money

Think Realty Podcast #154 – Move Your Money

On this episode, learn about financial agility with IRAs, how you can bring your own expertise when managing your assets, and how you can gain control and flexibility over your money. Find out the top three IRA strategies that will get your blood—and your funds—flowing! Also, learn how Roth IRAs ...
Think Realty Podcast #136 – Let’s Play IRA

Think Realty Podcast #136 – Let’s Play IRA

You probably already know that IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account. Or does it? Maybe it really means Investing Rules Apply. If investing with your IRA were a game, playing it is similar to many games in life: Learning the rules is important. But knowing the roles of everyone involved ...
How to Leverage Your Network to Grow Your IRA

How to Leverage Your Network to Grow Your IRA

01:11:11 | In this webinar, you will learn: - What is a Self-Directed IRA & why you should have one Types of Plans How to use your network Case Studies Borrow/Lending Partnering  ...
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1031 Exchanges, Opportunity Zones & Self-Directed Retirement Accounts

Whether you have been in real estate for one day or more than a decade, you can’t miss the current buzz about opportunity zones. Did you know the deadline for investing in a qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) is almost here? As that deadline approaches, investors and fund managers are becoming ...
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Roth IRAs: The Best Legacy-Building Tool

If you leave nothing else for your loved ones, be sure that they inherit a Roth IRA from you. Even if the account has a tiny balance, leaving behind a Roth IRA provides a legacy benefit of overwhelming value: a lifetime of tax-free investment profits. In short, an inherited IRA ...
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3 Actions to Start Self-Directing Your Retirement

“Most financial advisors will tell you that you simply cannot have a better lifestyle in retirement than you did while you were working full time. Most financial advisors are wrong.” So begins Edwin Kelly’s 60-minute training on exactly how real estate investors should begin self-directing their retirement. Kelly, CEO of ...
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Is Your IRA Handled by the Proper Entity?

| Preferred Trust | Article | IRAs, Topics
Last month I met with a potential client, who was unhappy with the service he was receiving through the company that was currently servicing his Self-Directed IRA. He described the challenges he faced trying to fund his investments, get paperwork completed, and the lack of communication between all the parties ...
How to Become an Accredited Investor

How to Become an Accredited Investor

Summary: Understanding the purpose of the accredited investor designation is important for you and your investing business. This article walks through how to determine if you’re an accredited investor, your net worth’s contribution to investor accreditation, and how you can still invest in private placements if you are not yet ...
3 Actions to Start Self-Directing Your Retirement

3 Actions to Start Self-Directing Your Retirement

“Most financial advisors will tell you that you simply cannot have a better lifestyle in retirement than you did while you were working full time. Most financial advisors are wrong.” So began Edwin Kelly, CEO of Specialized IRA Services, in his 60-minute training session at the 2017 Think Realty National ...
The Truth About Tax-Free Profits in Real Estate IRAs

The Truth About Tax-Free Profits in Real Estate IRAs

If you love the idea of huge real estate investing returns but dread the tax bills that come with financial success, then you share a common bond with just about every other investor in the country. However, if you realize that there are actually ways to create “tax-free profits” in ...
What Your IRA Custodians Cannot Tell you

What Your IRA Custodians Cannot Tell you

| Editorial Staff | Article | IRAs
Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and 401(k) custodians wish you wouldn’t make this mistake, but they can’t tell you directly! It’s literally illegal for them to do so because they’re not allowed to give investment advice. One of the most common ways that 401(k) owners fund real estate deals when they’re ...