Having said that, please forgive me if I mistakenly misled you or provided false information :)It's a very bad idea to hold real estate in a self-directed IRA or any retirement plan (from tax saving perspective).

Tax lien vs Tax Deed - Important DifferenceTX is a "tax Deed" state unless I am mistaken.

Carl, correct me If I am mistaken.

Yet we subsequently got a phone call that day from auction.com saying we had won the bid.They set a closing date for 4 weeks later and had us send in gobs of paperwork and a substantial deposit (for some reason I'm thinking it was more like 5k, but I could be mistaken).Two weeks later, we got a call from auction.com saying the bank rejected the offer and they were sending our deposit back.

You may mistakenly think if you do your best to follow the rules that you will be fine.

I tell her that's where the pins are, she says her boyfriend (yes, not her husband as he represented) was mistaken.

Those who called for a huge spike in foreclosures (and I'm talking about the local  people in the local NC areas, specifically the Raleigh (Wake county) area) at the end of the foreclosure moratorium were profoundly mistaken.

I think it's standard for the loan repayment to begin within two months or so, but maybe I'm mistaken.

Are all these investors mistaken?  

Thats why your unemployment rate lowered b/c there are more workers in the work force.I do agree with you that people who think the Fed cutting rates is a good thing are sadly mistaken.