Private lending from your IRA is a simple way to earn tax-advantaged income for retirement with minimal work involved. Your IRA is the bank and extends loans to individuals and other investors. The most common investment an IRA lends funds for is real estate. However, your IRA … Read More
Want to invest and earn income using other people’s money? Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it? And, why not? The concept is hardly unique. In fact, there’s even an acronym for it in the financial world: OPM. Warren Buffet and many other sophisticated investors invest with other … Read More
This is a guest blog written by Doug Smith of Castle Rock Capital Management to explain the best practices of loan underwriting for private lending investments. More and more self-directed IRA owners lend money from their IRAs than ever before. Private lending investments are an amazing way to … Read More
Private lending investments in an IRA offer many different avenues to earn income. Investors can choose to extend money to individuals for mortgages or other things (like a car or a boat). They can also loan money to businesses and other entities in much the same way … Read More
You can invest in real estate with an IRA successfully if you pick the right property under the right conditions, and it proves to be fruitful. You can choose from many different assets that have the potential to build income in your retirement account, and you don’t … Read More
It’s hard to keep up with the peaks and valleys the stock market has presented for the past few years. Up one day and down the next, but that’s just the name of the game. If the stock market has been your only vehicle for earning retirement … Read More
The main reason people self-direct retirement plans is to gain access to the large pool of alternative investments permissible in these accounts. One such asset that is gaining popularity is in the realm of private notes and mortgages. Read on to learn how your IRA can be … Read More
Real estate IRAs are the favored retirement plan structure for those who want to control their own investing funds and decisions using self-directed plans. Alternative assets in this realm can offer steady monthly income for those who use rentals this way. Other investors prefer the potential for … Read More
