What are Self-Directed IRA Fees?
If you’ve read our guide, How to Make the Most of Your Self-Directed Investment: A Guide for New Investors, you know that self-directed IRAs offer investors alternative investment options for your retirement accounts. Whether you choose to roll over funds from your 401(k) or traditional IRA, a self-directed account can allow you to make…
Investing With a Self-Directed Roth IRA
A Roth IRA is a retirement savings account that offers a wider range of benefits than a traditional IRA. For example, you can continue contributing to a Roth IRA well into your retirement years, whereas with a traditional IRA you must be under age 70 ½ to contribute to the account. In addition,…
What’s the Difference Between a Tax Lien and a Tax Deed?
Home ownership is the American dream – a dream that sometimes gets cut short by financial downturn. Home owners can start running behind on tax payments, and when this happens real estate investors can find investment opportunities. Both tax lien and tax deed investing involve buying properties that have delinquent taxes, but it’s…
Common Misunderstandings About Investing in Tax Liens
Even the most novice investor is familiar with a basic real estate transaction. After all, over 60% of Americans own their homes; so buying real estate is, for the most part, an understandable process. Real estate investing can get a lot more complex, however, and certain investments require more knowledge than others to…
What Financial Advisors Should Know About Tax Lien Investing
As investors increase their knowledge and venture out to take more control of their portfolios, financial advisors are also learning to provide more value. While some investors have just enough knowledge to be dangerous, they tend to want something outside the ordinary. For one thing, they’ve learned that investing in real estate can…
Why Invest in Tax Liens with Your Self-Directed IRA?
Chances are if you’re thinking about investing in real estate, you’re thinking about buying property. For most of us, it’s our first foray into the world of real estate investing. However, new opportunities may be found with tax liens. Tax lien investing has been around for years, but it is gaining popularity with…
Are Self-Directed Investments in Land Contracts the Same as Buying Real Estate?
Purchasing real estate is a great investment when using a Self-Directed IRA, especially if you’re looking for tax-deferred or tax-free income potential with rental property. If you’re looking for something different, or have creative financing in mind, there’s another way for your IRA to collect an ongoing stream of income- land contracts. What…
The Benefits of Using Your Self-Directed IRA to Fund a Structured Settlement
We’ve all seen the commercials urging recipients of structured settlements to get “cash now!” There are a whole lot of people in need of an immediate cash influx and are willing to sell their future stream of annuity payments at a deep discount. How can your Self-Directed IRA benefit from this development? What…
As Traditional Stocks Fail, Self-Directed Investors are Capitalizing
When the stock market declines, there are some investments that manage to shine. Current extraordinary economic events notwithstanding, there are assets that historically tend to provide stability during market volatility. These “safe havens” may even be a source for growth. Certain real estate investments fall within that category. Savvy investors are able to…
Self-Directing Some of Your Stock Sale Liquidity Can Help Ease Market Losses
In times of stock market turmoil, the strain on investors’ nerves can make the compulsion to sell too strong to resist. In the wake of declining oil prices and COVID-19 stock market fluctuations, many investors are unloading their stocks in a major market sell-off. Although “stay the course” is repeated ad nauseum, you…
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