If you have self-employment activity, you can continue to grow the retirement funds by investing them into real estate and other alternative assets.

Hey everyone. I work as a financial advisor and spend most of my time with clients. I've been wanting to diversify into residential real estate, but find that I do not have any extra time to manage properties. I have ...

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Last I heard in September there might be changes that negatively affect people investing in 506 reg D type of syndications via their self directed IRAs.

In general I would say that if you are comfortable with bookkeeping, do a good job screening, you have a property in good condition, and you take the time to properly educate your tenant on communication and maintenance procedures, expectations of both parties, and responsibilities, you'll have no problem self managing 1 duplex on your own with very little time dedication.Typically you will probably spend 15-20 min a month on bookkeeping and entering transactions, and that is about it.

Small growing portfolio of single family and small multi family properties that we self manage.

I was thinking a self storage type of business would be great.

To my 19-year-old self, I'd say, buy and hold, every chance you get.

Even though I want to start off by self-managing my future property if possible, so I can gain experience and some extra income, the dream is to one day have enough properties that I would want to outsource the property management aspect.I was discounting the cash flow based on income not coming from my unit, yes.

Are there any self storage investors in GA?