Insight & Updates

Everyone wants a safe retirement. The question is, what’s the best way to create a safe retirement? For many investors, the answer to that question is Self-Directed IRAs in which you can choose the investments you hold. For other investors…well, they sound like they’re a little too far off the beaten path. So how safe …

Is “traditional” always better? Not necessarily. Sometimes, sure. Other times, traditional simply means an old way of doing things. But the specific case of the Self-Directed Traditional IRA is a bit more complicated than these paradigms. There are reasons to contribute to a Traditional IRA, after all, and it will always help retirement investors to …

You know the traditional retirement assets. Stocks. Bonds. Index funds. And these can be great for many—you can even use them in a Self-Directed IRA. But what if you want something a little less traditional? What if you have experience with tax liens? Specific expertise with real estate? Then you may want a Self-Directed Roth …

Pop quiz. What does it take to retire? The answer is simple: generating more money in passive income every month than you spend. That’s the whole equation. For many retirement investors, the answer for generating that income is in the form of property that generates rental income. A Self-Directed IRA—in which you hold real estate—is …

Money matters more when you understand where it’s going, and that includes the fees tied to your retirement accounts. And while a lot of investors switch to Self-Directed IRAs because they want more power and control, it’s also important to consider what that looks like. Will there be more fees? Is it more expensive as …

You’ve probably heard it before. Use a Self-Directed IRA. You’ll get to pick your own retirement assets. And we know how appealing that is. You can have everything from real estate to precious metals in a retirement account. But that still leaves one question unanswered. How much control do you actually have with a Self-Directed …

A tax lien is a critical tool. Local municipalities use it to take a property that hasn’t been paying its taxes and turn it into an asset. But for investors, it can be a tool as well. You can hold tax liens in a retirement account—and when you do, you can collect interest rates higher …

Imagine having fantastic assets in a Self-Directed Roth IRA. Not only do they grow for you long-term, but they’re tax-free in retirement. While a lot of people think that a Roth IRA is all about postponing the gains until the future, the simple fact is that in the here and now, you get peace of …

A chunk of land is a powerful thing. Is there anything so confidence-instilling for a retirement portfolio than owning a piece of land? The problem is that for many investors, they don’t know that it is possible to hold this land within an IRA. By using a Self-Directed IRA to buy raw land, you can …

How popular is real estate for retirement? According to one Self-Directed IRA investor survey, 14% of retirement investors said real estate was their primary holding. And it’s not hard to see why: using Self-Directed IRAs to hold rental properties, for example, means investors have a reliable way to produce income in retirement. Since income is …