However, assets can be cars, trucks, machinery, equipment, etc.

You have been to the property to move machinery off5.

You would capitalize the expense of renting machinery, but you would not capitalize your utilities and taxes. 

For example, you can invest in real estate in any state orcountry, raw land, rental and commercial properties, condos, mobile homes, boat slips,machinery, livestock, start a new business, buy mortgage notes, loan money earning interest, taxliens and tax deeds, joint ventures, LLCs, mortgages, franchises, and more.All of these have to be handled strictly as investments through a company that specializes inself-directed IRAs and cannot be used personally, which means that anything bought with yourIRA is owned by your IRA, not by you personally.

Never to be fixed up just sit there like a modern art masterpiece on it's cement blocks (similar to Hoarder just leaves these "Valuable pieces of machinery" when moves out).

My brother in law makes bank doing this with his pipe burst machinery.   

Specialized machinery?

When the local authorities decide to repave those lanes and alleys using modern machinery, the weight of the machines can cause the ground to settle and your branch line can crack or separate at a joint.

All personal property, equipment, machinery, trade fixtures and temporary installations, whether acquired by Tenant at the commencement of the Lease term or placed or installed on the Leased Premises by Tenant thereafter, shall remain Tenant’s property free and clear of any claim by Landlord.

Hey Logan,I would say I purchased an income potential because I didn't purchase a business with the $50k, the first thing I purchased was a piece of machinery for $20k.