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Drive Your Investment Business for Performance, Results and Enjoyment
An issue that matters to all real estate investors—whether part-time or full-time—is how to drive your investment business for performance, results and enjoyment. Those three things are critical to success. Let’s start our discussion with the assumption that most of you who are reading this probably are old enough to ...
Chicago: Lessons from the most beat-up housing market in the country
For years, our thesis has been that the national downturn and recovery (in blue below) will play out similarly to the mid-1980s downturn in Houston (in orange below) and the early-1990s downturn in Southern California (in green below) because both the job losses and bank/savings and loan destructions were similar ...
Determine the Option That Best Aligns with Your Investment Goals Experienced investors and real estate professionals are aware that real estate can be a cornerstone of their IRAs. Real estate is an asset that adds diversity to account holders’ retirement portfolios. Account holders can find a reprieve from the volatility ...
Self-Directed IRA Investor's Guide to Contributions, Transfers and Rollovers Welcome to the world of self-directed IRAs! Guess what? These powerful investment tools are just like regular IRAs in so many ways (except for investing). Just as with a typical IRA, a self-directed IRA can be funded in three ways: 1 ...
SHIRA is Gaining More Attention As an IRA Investing Strategy If you would like to tap into your qualified retirement plan to purchase investment property and avoid all the usual prohibited transactions, the SAFE HARBOR®-Directed IRA™ (SHIRA™) may be the vehicle for you. Lasaii’s OUTSIDE® structure of utilizing IRA money ...
How to Harness the Power of Nonperforming Notes It’s no news to anyone that you can use your self-directed IRA to invest in real estate. Many investors use their IRA accounts to purchase real estate and to make private or hard money loans to other investors, but many forget they ...
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 ...
Sellers realize average price gain of 17 percent from home purchase price, highest in 8 years
A new report shows that homeowners who sold during the third quarter of 2015 realized an average price gain of $40,658 (17 percent) from the purchase price of their property, the highest average price gain for home sellers since the third quarter of 2007, according to RealtyTrac. The report also ...
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 ...
MSAs in South Region Rank at Top of RentRange List of Markets with Largest SFR Rent Increases from Q4 2014 to Q4 2015 Markets in the South region in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee account for eight of the top 10 places on RentRange’s list of the 25 MSAs with ...
Landlords Report a Surge in Number of Older Renters Seeking Walkable Areas. We Think There May Be a Trend Afoot. Will Baby Boomer homeownership fall? We believe it will. Earlier this year, seven of us from John Burns Real Estate Consulting attended the National Multifamily Housing Conference, one of the ...
Home Flipping Up in 2015 After Four-Year Slide, RealtyTrac Year-End Report Shows RealtyTrac’s Year-End and Q4 2015 U.S. Home Flipping Report shows that 179,778 U.S. single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2015. That accounts for 5.5 percent of all single-family home and condo sales during the year. The 5.5 ...
Networking for Real Estate Investing Success
The scenario: You're seriously considering investing in real estate this year. You have the money, perhaps in a 401(k) or IRA, or you will after selling an existing property. You’ve done your research and have even attended a few seminars put on by real estate legends. You’ve learned the best ...
Balancing Act: Crowdfunding Garners Enthusiasm But Requires Thoughtfulness
More than three years after the passage of the JOBS Act, the SEC implemented its much-anticipated final rules legalizing Title III crowdfunding. So, what do the rules mean, and how will they apply to real estate investing in the future? The crowdfunding rules aim to allow business entities to raise ...
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 ...
