A self-directed IRA is a retirement account, held by a specialized custodian, that permits investment in alternative assets including real estate, rather than the stocks, bonds, and funds typical custodians allow.
Log in to followI'm about a month from funding and I have two versions of the same purchase in front of me. Version one, the custodian takes title directly, deed reads as the custodian FBO my acc…
I have both a traditional rollover IRA and a Roth, and enough in each that either one could buy a small single family rental with cash. The custodian doesn't care which I use. I d…
I've spent so long weighing options that I'm now weighing the wrapper instead of the deal, which is its own problem. Two versions I can actually execute. One, the IRA buys a modes…
I've been running a service business for five years and the retirement side has been on autopilot in index funds the whole time. Now I'm looking at moving part of it into a self-d…
Reading the account agreement before I fund it, and there's a clause I hadn't thought about at all. Every year I have to provide the custodian a fair market value for each asset t…
I scope renovations for a living, which means I can look at a bid and tell you which line is padded. Inside an IRA I can't touch the property, can't swing a hammer on it, can't sp…
Everything the account gives you on the income side, it takes back on the deduction side, and I don't see this discussed much when people compare an IRA rental to the same rental…