When you're ready to buy real estate with your IRA.
What kinds of property can you purchase through your IRA? Most custodians will allow vacant land, residential or commercial property. Some may also allow leveraged and foreign property.
What if the property you want to buy costs more than you have in your IRA? Are you out of luck? Not quite. You can...
Want real estate in your IRA? Find the right custodian.
If you’ve been following our real estate thread the past few days, you remember that we’re discussing how to invest in income property through your self-directed IRA. Considering the chaotic state of the stock market these days, real estate as an investment option is beginning to look better and...
All cash real estate purchases with your IRA.
At Platinum Properties, we don’t believe it is a good idea to buy any property on an all-cash basis. There is absolutely no good reason to do that when you can put down 20% and let the bank take the majority of the risk in the deal. However, for the purposes of illustration, let’s look at a quick...
The IRS says real estate in your IRA is okay.
Where were we? Oh yes, I remember. Investing in real estate through your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). The lowdown is you can buy real estate through a traditional IRA, Roth, Simple, SEP, 401K, Health Savings Account, and even Coverdell Savings Account for the kids. Better, you can borrow the...
Retire in 7-12 years with this unique refinancing strategy.
Refinancing is not just a maneuver to help you get out of a mortgage payment black hole or squeeze a few more interest rate points from your bank. Refinancing, when done the right way, is a lifelong investment strategy that can replace your income and leave great big gaping holes of time in your life...
Setting the table with the right IRA.
Now that we’ve established that you can invest in real estate through an IRA, the obvious question becomes, “How can I get me on of them things?” Lucky for you, we just happen to know the answer. Since the first iteration of a traditional IRA was created in 1974 with the Employment Retirement Income...
Investing in real estate with your IRA.
In our continued pursuit of excellent ways to invest in real estate, we’re going to devote some time in the coming days to ways you can do just that with your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Yes, your eyes did not cross while reading that last sentence. It is possible to use your IRA to build...