I am also a huge fan of real estate and for the past 50 years there's been a way to combine both.By leveraging a Self-Directed IRA, real estate investors enjoy both the traditional advantages of property ownership and the additional tax benefits of retirement accounts, creating a powerful wealth-building strategy.

My goal is to leverage that equity for additional income.

If we had hundreds of loans out, we’d have enough monthly income to aggregate the payments into additional loans—but we don’t.If you do this, your note will have to have a compounding clause in it, provided by your lending attorney.

The landlord should be named on the tenant's insurance policy for additional protection and to assist with tracking compliance.

I am considering building up on my fourplex. 2 additional units.

NEVER CONVERT CASH in YOUR IRA or 401K into ROTH!!!

If you sell a property, and do a 1031 exchange with the proceeds, but don't need all the proceeds for the down payment of the next property, are you taxed on the additional profit that isn't part of the exchange?

Unless you have a Roth SDIRA, there are significant downsides to investing in real estate with an IRA.  

If you had $50K in a Self direct IRA how would you leverage that to yield short and long term dividends? 

It’s the same thing except it’s done in the name of the IRA and all the money comes out of the IRA and returns go back into the IRA.