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Self-Directed IRAs Can Lead to Retirement Success—With the Right Guidance Self-directed IRAs are an excellent option for retirement investments. They allow you to fund your retirement using assets you know a lot about, such as real estate. But self-directed IRAs, particularly ones with checkbook capabilities, are not for every investor ...
It Pays to Know Your Options in Using Retirement Accounts for Real Estate Investing I’m surprised by the number of full-time real estate investors who rely entirely on the stock market for their retirement portfolio despite driving higher returns by renting, rehabbing or lending. I field questions every day from ...
Self-directed IRAs Can Boost Your Wealth While Positively Impacting Your Community Rex, a real estate investor from Illinois, purchased a foreclosed single-family home in 2013 for $47,000, including some rehab costs. After renting it for a year, he was able to sell it for $69,000. This looks like a profitable, ...
Report: Loan Limits Stifling New Home Sales in California and Arizona
By Adam Artunian John Burns Real Estate Consulting A new report from John Burns Real Estate Consulting says the pool of qualified new home buyers appears to be running thin in California and there are problems also in Arizona. The cause is loan limits by government sponsored enterprises as those ...
How to Avoid Unintended Tax Implications in Your Real Estate IRA Everyone knows that you don’t pay taxes on the growth of assets in an IRA, right? Well, not always. It’s true that the asset growth in the classic investments made in a Traditional IRA—stocks, bonds and mutual funds, for ...
How to Harness the Power of IRA Non-Recourse Loans for Real Estate Investing Investors have always known the power of real estate to enhance their retirement portfolios, but few realize they have the option to leverage self-directed retirement accounts to purchase investment property. Since the creation of the IRA in ...
A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Mortgage Regulations It’s a common problem: Many people want to get started in real estate investment or buy more properties, but their biggest store of liquidity is in their IRAs and other retirement accounts. Fortunately for investors in that situation, there’s a simple and ...
Housing Your Next Real Estate Investment in an IRA I’ve spent most of my career overseeing the construction of multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, single-family dwellings and office property, as well as buying and selling raw land, commercial buildings and so on. Since 2004, the real estate portion of my business holdings ...
Setting Up a Self-Directed IRA is Not As Complicated As You Might Think We are often asked, “How do I go about setting up a self-directed IRA?” Many people think it is a complicated process because the idea is sold on the Internet as “an IRS loophole” or “little-known IRS secret” ...
Building Lasting Wealth for Your Future Technology has changed everything, including how we approach investing. In today's fast-paced world, companies providing financial and retirement services have had to adjust to meet consumer demand. New digital signature capabilities, online platforms and digital portals have provided consumers with on-demand access to their ...
Learn How Individual Retirement Accounts Can Work for Real Estate Investors Most people in America don’t have enough money for retirement. That’s a fact. Many people have retirement accounts, but they are lax with their personal oversight of their own investments. One way to turn the tide is by understanding ...
What Self-Directed IRAs Are All About As an avid real estate investor, you probably have heard about self-directed IRAs. Self-directed IRAs are one of the most powerful tools available for building wealth on a tax-deferred or tax-free basis. If the volatility in today’s traditional investment markets has wreaked havoc with ...
A 'Reverse' 1031 Exchange Requires Financial Strength, No Matter Which Route You Choose In a forward 1031 Exchange, the relinquished property is sold first, followed by the purchase of the replacement property. The proceeds from the sale of the relinquished property go toward the down payment or purchase price of ...
Using a Scope of Work - Especially a Detailed One - Can Prevent Misinterpretation and Save You Big Money No matter what size project we undertake, we always put together a scope of work. This can be as simple as writing specifications on a legal pad or a multiple-page document ...
Understand the Costs Involved in Maintaining a Rental Property When Evaluating Whether to Make That Deal In recent articles, I have discussed the need for “financial literacy” and an understanding of the terms, concepts and fundamentals of cash-flow analysis. We have looked at estimating effective gross income. Now we turn ...
Get Your Summer Daylight Hours Back and Reduce Liability Risks by Focusing on These Top 10 Property Maintenance Tasks Ahh, summer vacation. The beach, an afternoon nap in the sun and a “little umbrella” drink. Or perhaps a mountain hike, dirt in your laces and a picnic lunch by a ...
Carefully Consider Your Situation Before Rushing into a Sale of Your Investment Property You’ve held a property for years, and now, for one reason or another, you’re thinking it might be time to sell. Rushing into a sale, though, can be a costly mistake. Before you stick a “For Sale” ...
Our Street-Smart Panel Discusses What to Consider When Looking for Maximum ROI in Residential Property Investments Scott Sklare Synergy Real Estate Group Before getting into the specifics of how I decide where to invest for maximum ROI, I would like to take a step back and look at the bigger ...
With So Many Challenges and Opportunities in Real Estate Investing, Where Do You Start? Very early on, starting out as a part-time real estate investor, I recognized the enormous challenges in the vast ocean of real estate but also the numerous opportunities that exist. It can become overwhelming, and almost ...
Transactions Involving Smaller Commercial Properties are on the Upswing Big trophy properties in larger cities have certainly benefited from the recent strong real estate market, but last year’s bigger story was about the recent resurgence of smaller commercial properties. Transactions involving assets priced under $5 million were at record levels ...
Investing in Probate Property Gives You a Way to Help Others While Also Benefiting Financially Ever stop to think about all of the different types of property we accumulate throughout our lifetime and what becomes of it when we are no longer around? What happens to someone’s property when he ...
Which One Makes the Most Financial Sense for Your Second Home: Vacation or Long-Term Rental? Second homes are increasing in popularity, with more and more Americans looking to buy vacation property. According to the National Association of Realtors, vacation-home sales accounted for 21 percent of all transactions in 2014, their ...
Bird-Dogging Provides a Way to Ease into Real Estate Investing Since you’re reading this, you probably recognize that real estate investing is one of the best vehicles for making money and achieving long-term financial success. Many people, however, may not have the money, experience or confidence to become real estate ...
The Customer is Always Right There
Your Relationship with Your Clients is of Utmost Importance, So Set the Right Tone from the Start The customer relationship is vital to the success of any business. As real estate investors, we operate a unique type of business, but that doesn’t mean the value of relationships is any less ...
Did You Know You Have Five Profit Centers in Each of Your Rental Properties When You Keep Them for The Long Term? Most investment opportunities have one potential profit center. When you buy an index fund or a mutual fund or gold, for example, all you can really do is ...
