Investing in Notes through your IRA or 401k, via a "Self-Directed" IRA/401k can be extremely lucrative however, you will need a Self-Directed IRA/401k firm to administer your retirement account.

The courts ruled that even though each cab was owned in its own LLC, since they were being administered by one LLC, all cabs then were subject to the law suit.So in short, a good combination of reasonable LLCs coupled with appropriate liability insurance is the best answer.

I hear from those attending that this has driven average returns on tax liens to 6-9%, but that's for financial institutions with scale that can hire cheap labor to visit every site (which is a must to ensure the property is in good shape), go to the local assessor's office and look up all the liens, hold onto the lien for several years, administer the ongoing payments and any foreclosure proceedings, and run pretty sophisticated spreadsheets that estimate whether you're going to get 6% or 8% return, based on economic forecasts, etc.

Census Bureau: American Community Survey (ACS)The ACS was launched in 2005 and is administered every year by the Census Bureau to roughly three and a half million households in the USA.

Many investors outside of Baltimore do not have to deal with this issue;3) As you know, Section 8 is a Federal program, but administered by the states and Cities (population over 50,000). 

You can’t put your 401k in Farallon even if you want to.  401k plans administered by big brokerages are the best deal going for individual investors. 

First time home buyer programs are usually administered at the state/local level.FHA 203b and 203k are great ways to get started b/c of low down payment required and the 203k allows for rehab money to be included with mortgage. 

What the rules tell us is that you may not personally benefit from the IRA (i.e. paying yourself to manage) or provide benefit to the IRA via the provision of goods or services (i.e. swinging hammers).The general interpretation in the industry is that you may administer the investments of the IRA, so activities like screening tenants, signing a lease, collecting the rents, hiring vendors to do repairs, etc. is acceptable.  

I've administered in excess of 75,000 1031 exchanges during my 24 years in the business as a professional Qualified Intermediary and we see very, very few of these audited.

All IRA based plans are required to have a custodian to administer and report on the account.