I’ve been diving deeper into Self-Directed IRAs lately—especially how people are leveraging them for real estate syndications, land deals, and even ground-up developments.It’s wild how many folks don’t even know they can use their retirement accounts for real estate (outside of REITs).

Overall, it's probably C+, with a growing number of Class B blocks:)The further north you go though, you can hit Class D blocks.So, investors MUST be careful and we highly recommend having boots on the ground take a video of the block (and preferrably a block in each direction) a property is on before buying.If there are more than 25% of the 3 Bs (Boardups, Burnouts & Blowouts) or too many vacant lots, then proceed with MAXIMUM caution!

The greater Detroit area is where I'd be looking to do this as I have a boots-on-the-ground partner there, but we are both unsure of the potential pitfalls and unseen things we might run into.

Seeing if you can get an investor on the line who closed some 10 million dollar ground up deal for 40 unit building and ask them who financed it. 

That’s an awesome goal — learning property management from the ground up is one of the best ways to set yourself up for long-term success in real estate.Here are a few steps to help you get started and find mentors, especially in New Hampshire and Massachusetts:1.

It may work, it may not in time to pull back up and avoid becoming a splat on the ground.

Also open to mixed-use with commercial on ground floor and apartments above.

I also invest in single family and small multi family properties with my husband, a NYC based general contractor with a focus on residential renovations of town homes, apartment combinations and out of the ground houses.

If auto plants came back, they would be highly automated bringing few jobs and to do so, they would need to build from the ground up. 

This means that it is not enough to simply buy property in an OZ, but you have to either develop a building from the ground up or you need to take an existing building and at least spend as much renovating it as you spent acquiring it in the first place.