I expose myself to other stuff for the sake of a natural curiosity and to gamble a little.  

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

But I'm always open to using different methods and trying new approaches.  

Just the nature of real estate.) 

I like the possibilities of creating through real estate through so many methods and allowance for financial freedom.

You can also network at investor groups and pick up business.It's the time-proven method.

I'm Eric and I've dabbled around the real estate investing topic for a while now, especially using the BRRRR method.

Most methods will do a bit of both - but will often highly favor one over the other.

Moreover, what is your method of financing?

The capital gains you would get from selling the property go back into the IRA tax free or tax deferred, depending on if the account was a Traditional or Roth and the only time you would incur taxes is if you took the money out of the qualified retirement account and took it into your personal name as a distribution.I would never own real estate inside of a retirement account.In your situation of transferring a certain percentage of the property itself instead of cash, you would need to pay a bunch of professionals on an annual basisA) $600+ for an appraiserB) $500+ for the title company to transfer ownershipC) $300+ for your accountant to properly adjust your taxable basis for the rental activity reported on your individual tax return.D) You risk your property taxes being reassessedYou also have to properly split each expense Furthermore, since you are not receiving cash, you would need to potentially find alternative methods to find cash to pay your tax liability.Yes, you are correct, depreciation is not needed/used within an IRA.