@Tom Scott, I started with owning rentals directly then later moved to investing in notes through my SD IRA.  

@Anthony JenningsYou are a disqualified person to your wife's IRA and may not transact with her IRA in any direct or indirect fashion.  

If you already have an investment property and can show $50,000 in a bank account/IRA /401K , you may be able to get a credit line for $500,000.

A lot of forum members are very knowledgeable in their respective fields related to real estate investing, whether that is real estate sales, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, or tax and legal guidance.

The IRA can be self directed to invest in the real estate. 

Rolled 401K into self directed IRA and inheritance How did you add value to the deal?

A lot of forum members are very knowledgeable in their respective fields related to real estate investing, whether that is real estate sales, wholesaling, flipping, rentals, lending, self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investing, or tax and legal guidance.

I recently bought a car that has a $400 monthly payment on, as well as a $200 deposit into a Roth IRA through Vanguard where I buy S&P 500 stocks and bonds(for retirement).

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I was reading an article about Self Directed IRAs that can be used to purchase real estate and am curious if anybody out there has ever used it?