I believe self directed IRAs are compelling vehicles to make passive real estate investments, but there are certainly trade offs. 

Jimmy Klein when you have a dense urban core with not much land to work with companies and investors have to get creative and think outside the box.

My core competency is in the area of marketing property and my agency does some property management. 

The core idea is valuing the real property in an As Is/Where Is state at any given time relevant.  

I personally tend not to like "messy" deals unless the cash flow is really compelling.

Again, I apologize, but felt compelled to answer and give the full picture to the statement made about my company and what appeared to be questioning our integrity, honesty and customer service.

I've been researching options for sometime now, but felt compelled to start a new thread as this is a new RE transaction I have no experience with, and I'm really not certain I want to tie up a good portion of my capital in this deal.Here are the outlines of the deal:I buy property at $120K w/ 20% down; tenant escrows $10K upon my purchase and lease signing with them.Under the option, $200/month of rent will be credited to future tenant down payment.Tenant purchase price is set at $135K.

Hi all,Just went to a seminar and signed up for Tax Lien University and My Company Core.

This may be difficult for investing, but core materials should have some authority behind them.

DG and DT were focusing only on core one dollar items to drive sales.In many ways in my opinion Dollar Stores on Triple Net aren't that appetizing to me to recommend to my clients.