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In our last blog posting, we introduced you to investment opportunities that we can recommend with several of our trusted partners offering programs suitable for a Real Estate IRA or Solo 401(k). Two of these Real Estate investment programs are based in Texas and recently, an article was published in The Atlantic magazine that fully [...]
Recently, I read an article on Market Watch by Paul B. Farrell. The article is entitled “Wall Street’s Invisible Gorilla Is Killing America’s Soul”, on the Wall Street Journal’s Digital Network. Then, within days, USA Today published an article entitled “Computerized Stock Trading Leaves Investors Vulnerable” by Matt Krantz, Staff Writer. A summary of Farrell’s [...]
In the late 1970s, the economy was limping along and there wasn’t a great deal of optimism. Mortgage rates were around 10% and home appreciation was running at about the 50 year average of 4.7%. It was during this “boom period” that I did my first “rehab & flip”. I paid $8500 for a 2 [...]
At the beginning of 2010 we wrote an article stating that “2010 will look a lot like 2009…and the worst is over and those huge drops in prices are a thing of the past”. Now that the first quarter is behind us, what’s really apparent is that even though things have somewhat stabilized, there’s a [...]
To get straight to the point…2010 will look a lot like 2009. In other words, BIG opportunities for Self Directed IRA real estate investors. In the early part of 2009, we forecast that real estate prices would stabilize either in late 2009 or early 2010. And, at this point, it looks like the worst is [...]
In the past months, we have posted numerous articles related to real estate investment opportunities as a result of short sales, foreclosures and bank-owned properties (REOs) for investors who who have set up a Self Directed IRA plan to hold real estate. Now comes the news that foreclosures have just seen the “worst three months [...]
This is Part 1 of a 3 Part series exploring the relationship between “distressed” properties and Self Directed IRA real estate investing. In Part 1, we’ll take a look at the opportunity (for investors) created by foreclosures, short sales and REO (real estate owned) property. Part 2 will deal with the advantages of being a [...]
Traditional Wall Street wisdom says to “stay the course”…time is on your side. But, a quick evaluation of current economic circumstances suggests otherwise. The majority of publicly traded companies such as Coca Cola, UPS, Delta Airlines and many others, have frozen traditional pension plans. Employer matching contributions to 401(k) plans have been put “put on [...]
Self Directed IRA investors eager to make up for your losses…take heed. Your time has come and the window of opportunity is wide open. t6r7cv3qmg While real estate prices may not quite have touched the bottom, foreign investors, including Canadians and Chinese, are snatching up bank owned, foreclosed and distressed properties all over the U.S. [...]
In the history of the United States of America, real estate investing has created more millionaires, with less risk, than any other investment. Yes, these are difficult and challenging times for the investment real estate market, but it would be a mistake to characterize all real estate as being too risky to consider. Real estate [...]
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