Real Estate in Recovery, but With Room to Run
It’s been a rough six-year stretch. But it looks like the real estate sector is finally well on the road to recovery. We’ve seen a broad increase in average home […]
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Why Most Americans Are Not On Track to Retire
One of the recurring themes here at American IRA, LLC-a national Self-Directed IRA provider, is that Americans are woefully unprepared for retirement. This is true at all ages. The other […]
Best Practices in Real Estate IRA Investing
Generally, the best and smartest things you can do in Real Estate IRA investing are the same as the best and smartest things you can do outside of real estate […]
The Biggest Retirement Planning Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)
Life, sadly, is a one-way Slip n’ Slide. Time only goes in one direction, and we only grow older – never younger. Well, sure, we expect that. But there are […]
No-More 60-day Daisy-Chain IRA Loans: Tax Court, IRS Tightening Rollover Rules
Yes, IRS Publication 590, dealing with individual retirement arrangements, says specifically that you can withdraw money from an IRA or qualified retirement plan tax-free and penalty free, as long as […]
Make Your Retirement Savings Last
Life expectancies, thankfully, are going up. That’s a great thing, thanks to the miracles of modern medicine and improvements in the distribution of health care and improved nutrition. But that […]
Break the Underperformance Cycle
According to the new Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB) from mutual fund industry consulting firm DALBAR, the average mutual fund investor actually underperformed the market over the last 20 […]
Recovering Interest Rates Make Private Lending Within IRAs More Attractive
Bad news for borrowers can be good news for lenders. After a very long dry spell, interest rates are starting to nose up out of the cellar. Which means it’s […]
Real Estate IRA Basics FAQ
If you’re coming here because you saw something on the Web about real estate IRAs, or you heard something from a friend, you came to the right place. Yes, real […]
Turn-Key Real Estate in Your IRA
You’ve probably heard by now about the concept of holding real estate within your IRA, Roth IRA, solo 401(k), SEP or other tax-advantaged retirement account. That concept has actually been […]