If they are charging a higher fee, they may either be giving you some back in rate or they are just fat with overhead and have to charge it.   

His high expenses will keep rolling along nicely, but his income will take a high-dive belly flop.My financial planner, and my friends, are all in the same boat.

I could not agree more that this is a great time to buy depending on income/location/price point.My initial intention was to compare an Investment Property (i.e. non-owner-occupied) with other asset classes (i.e. cash/stock/bond/commodities/pork bellies).

A fat flip deal would have enough to cover UBIT and still blow up the IRA.Here is one of the quickest and bets ways to blow up a SDIRA: Lock up contracts with EMD's (earnest money depoists from your IRA (or options) and then assign the contracts or sell the options.

Since title stays in owners name with lease options, what happens if they go belly up and you took 5k from a buyer with an option to purchase your home?

The thing to remember about the big boy "fat cat" investors, is that they really aren't real estate investors, a least not single family residential homes.

We all know that you're one of those RICH fat cat landlords that is exploiting the lower class.

There is plenty of money to be made investing in equities, fixed-income, real estate, judgments, tax deeds, small businesses, pork bellies, etc.

You'll have butterflies at first, but if you chose correctly, you'll be wondering what the big fat hairy deal was about a year from now. :-)

Who would have ever thought you could buy a share of Ford Stock & a share of GM stock for less than a Grande, no-fat, sugar-free Cinnamon Dolce Latte, no whip at Starbucks?