real estate investing: Do you have a Self-Directed IRA? Every real estate investor needs to read this.
- 04/17/12 08:04 AM
A growing number of real estate investors are using a self-directed IRA to finance their property purchases nowadays. That’s because a self-directed IRA can provide them with the opportunity to buy real estate and earn rental income without paying early distribution fees.The Investment Company Institute – the national association of U.S. investment companies, estimates that about $4.7 trillion in IRAs were held in the U.S. last year. Of this, an estimated $94 billion (only 2 percent) are in Self-directed IRAs.A Self-directed Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is not your typical IRA since it allows the account owner to invest in a wider (0 comments)
Where did you buy? How did you find the property? Did you win or lose? What did you learn from the experience? If you could invest anywhere in the USA now, what's your top pick? If you don't invest, what is holding you back?
(Photo: Recent Heaton Dainard flip in Mountlake Terrace, WA) Article from Reuters: NEW YORK - The United States will remain the top choice of most global commercial real estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday. While the United States offers the most stable and secure option in commercial real estate, investors said improvement in rent and occupancy growth and the repeal of a 1980 foreign investment tax would have the strongest impact on their investment decisions, according to the 20th annual survey of (4 comments)