Investing Your IRA

This article is by Greg Rand who is CEO of OwnAmerica.com and former managing partner of Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty.   Everybody wants to be an entrepreneur, but no one wants to be a landlord. What’s up with that? As if tenants are some kind of outcasts who bring a chill to your spine with just the sound of their ...

Christine Van Tuyl and Margaret La Grange, an award-winning mother-daughter team with Prudential California Realty in Coronado, have compiled their latest list, the “Top Twelve Tips for Buying an Investment Property.”  “Real estate investors aren’t necessarily all-cash buyers with millions in the bank,” said Van ...

This article was written by the CMPS Institute www.CMPSInstitute.org   Real estate investors and vacation home buyers represented 35-40% of all residential property purchases in the years before the market downturn. Yet, many of these same investors are now experiencing serious negative equity and cash flow issues, and they are ...

This article is by Eric Tyson, MBA, one of the nation’s best-selling personal finance book authors and has penned five national bestsellers and by Robert S. Griswold, MSBA, is a successful real estate investor and hands-on property manager with a large portfolio of residential and commercial rental properties.   There’s no ...

HomeVestors® of America, Inc., the company famous for its “We Buy Ugly Houses”® billboards and America’s #1 Home Buyer, has named the top 10 markets for real estate investing in the fourth quarter and 2008. The fourth quarter rankings are as follows: 1. Dallas, Texas 2. Houston, Texas 3. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 4. ...

This article is by Curtis Seltzer who is a land consultant who works with buyers and investors. He is author of How To Be a DIRT-SMART Buyer of Country Property at www.curtis-seltzer.com. He contributes to www.landthink.com.  I’m sure there are three people in America who figured the stock market just right this year and are swimming ...

This article is by John Checki, an independent investment advisor representative for Securities America Advisors Inc., who has been a part of the financial services industry for over 20 years, and expects, with good reason, to be around for another few decades.   Throughout our nation’s history, investing in real estate has been one ...

This article is by Jennifer D. Meacham, a business and personal finance columnist for The Oregonian and co-author of “IRA Wealth: Revolutionary IRA Strategies for Real Estate Investment” (Square One Publishers). This month, we answer one of many questions we’ve received on the strategies real estate professionals are taking to ...

The combined total of vacation- and investment-home sales declined with the overall market in 2007, but still accounted for 33% of all existing- and new-home sales, which is close to historic norms, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The market share of homes purchased for investment last year was 21%, down from 22% in 2006, ...

Why are more and more people choosing self-directed IRA’s?Guidant Financial Group conducted a recent survey of almost 1000 investors and asked them what they felt were the most appealing benefits of a self-directed IRA. Having the ”ability to control investments” was the number one reason investors choose a self-directed IRA, ...