Leverage in an IRA will produce Unrelated Debt Financed Income (UDFI), subject to Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT).There are plenty of investment options to deploy your IRA funds, but again, using your IRA in connection with this transaction will disqualify your IRA. 

In the last five years, I’ve had close to 10 investor clients who either became real estate agents or had their spouses do so—because they were certain they already knew enough to handle it on their own.From here, I’ve seen things go in two directions.One path is overconfidence: they rush out, buy properties, and quickly get themselves into trouble.

, I'm still having trouble understanding how the numbers work here.  

After all the trouble I've had with HOAs the past two years, I would probably never consider buying a rental in one. 

Here's a breakdown to my best knowledge  Real Estate Investment Trusts are companies that own, operate, or finance income-producing real estate.

There are syndication/crowdfunding funds currently being launched now which intend to take over deals from syndicators/operators (where those same owners would otherwise have to turn the keys over to the bank).Generally the ones in trouble are those that structured too aggressively (high debt, floating rate, etc).

It's all come together pretty quickly in the last year and a half so I'm still coming to terms with it myself.The house hack is a four bedroom 2 bath house that my wife and I purchased as our first home with the intention of having it produce at least some income.

They don't publicly produce any documents showing what a fund holds or any information about the fund. 

Finally- you can eliminate 95% of the troubles and risk by simply having professional and legal screening and management processes, so don't sleep on that piece. 

My full-time gig is to invest in income-producing websites (digital real estate) and I'm working backwards to first increase the authority of my website to then eventually rank organically in Google.Given my experience building sites, I personally don't think SEO is as complicated as any agency makes it out to be.