Despite this negative post, we are still willing to assist in any way we can, with the understanding that everyone interacts in a professional manner.Grant McMillan, COO Rent to Retirement can someone make a marketplace where investors can direct contract with builders and we can bypass these guys for good. it's a sales company that's it.  

To start my portfolio, I intend to buy a property in my area to retire my mother from New York.

Is using a self-direct IRA to fund this venture a way to defer taxes until retirement ?

Hey Rud,Do not forget you can invest in Syndications within a retirement account, such as an IRA or Solo401K. 

He's retired at 35 and all he does his run his units. 

My purpose behind my decision to pursue REI is to gain financial freedom for wife and I, my future family as well as have the ability to make sure my parents are well taken care of once they reach the retirement age.If I had to label myself I’d want to be known as an open minded rental investor for all long term, mid term and short term investing, with the occasional flip for quicker capitol to put back into another rental.

Certainly not by liquidating their retirement accounts that just suffered an historic drop in value.Do you feel that Oregon’s bias against landlords is a temporary fad, or a permanent change that may even worsen over time? 

I'm an active-duty military (retiring soon).

Are you going after Rent to Retirement?  

While I don’t suggest that the smaller type investor purchase and utilize “exotic” vehicles like foreign asset protection trusts, family limited partnerships with outside controls, or Byzantine or convoluted maze of ownership entities, the more simple strategies of using Series LLCs, self directed retirement plans, and paying off their home mortgage to the extent of the Federal BK homestead exemptions can insure that a plaintiff attorney never even considers going after them.