Investing in real estate is not that different than stocks, bonds, precious metals, art or whatever.

IE, stocks, bonds, money market, real estate, life insurance, etc.

If you hired a contractor, did you check his license, and bond?

Fixed rate mortgage loans are not based on the prime rate, but the 10 year treasury, bond market, or Libor.

Like buying a bond where you just collect a check every so often.

I thought of gold, stock market, mutual funds, savings bonds, savings account, and lastly real estate.Guess what I picked?

I understand that instead of investing in the traditional stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, etc., they allow you to take control and can hold real estate.I guess my initial question would be whether or not you have to have enough funds in the SDIRA to cover the entire purchase price or can you just use some cash in the SDIRA for the down payment?

But when the government puts money into the economy either through QE or buying bonds there is definitely an impact on commodities.

When agents start thinking like business owners it only strengthens the real estate industry.

My situationHave a decent sized portfolio of stocks, bonds, etc and a main residence.