With my last 80 posts, I probably have had 5 times more PM and actual conversations with other investors than the other 250+ posts that I have made over the past couple of years!

We are just starting out using our Self Directed retirement funds loaning to a group with a long, successful history. In providing a second position loan for gap funding, we are thinking of asking 16% and 4 points. We...

If you actually calculate that ROI, you will likely lose track of decimal places and not be sure if it's 100%, 1000%, or 10,000%.You'd be surprised what Fannie/Freddie will finance, that people don't even realize.

Jeremy Hunter, I'm actually looking for C class properties in B neighborhoods.

The ONLY way your gonna find deals is to have a marketing budget and to actually market to potential sellers.

Too many people pay $30k for a guru to tell them everything, but if you can "sacrifice" $10-$20k of potential profit, you will have real-world experience, relationships AND the ability to go to private money or bank financing with and actual track record.

How do they actually make the trip from point A to point B?  

In our project actuals there was  ~8K in costs that would not have occurred if we did not have to clean-up after the pets.

I looked up the tax records and it's actually held by an investment LLC out in Cali.

Once you have significant capital in qualified retirement funds that you can actually do things like hard money lending or buying properties, then a self-directed plan makes sense.