All said, you will find many folks within these forums that are strong promoters of self-directed IRAs.

I'm starting to wonder if Dealmachine is just really great at promotion of the product.

Hello, I’m interested on getting some insight from anyone willingI currently live in Seattle and want to get into REI but the cost out here makes it tough to be able to get involved without capitalI read the out of state investing book and it got me interested in trying somewhere that I don’t have to burn up all my capital to get started1.

At some point if you want to be an Entrepreneur you have to burn the ships. 

My best guess would be you had carryover losses but consider the opportunity cost of burning them up. 

With that being said, I’m starting to see more of the benefits in some of what he promoted.  

One thing I did note is my insurance is $3K a year lower due to the monitored fire suppression system in these larger properties versus my smaller properties that sleep 12 or less built close to the same time.As someone who has lived in Illinois twice, the politicians there don't care if people burn as long as they can tax and spend. 

. - Tenant agrees to either start the loan with recourse, with it burning off after the extension is signed, or start the loan as non-recourse with a springing trigger if tenant does not sign the extension soon by a certain deadline. - Lender requires a heavy TI/LC reserve until the extension is signed.

I recently flew to hawaii from AMEX Platinum Points but it was just because I did the opening card promotion minimum amount and got a ton of points.

I'm not self promoting.