Can anyone explain how purchasing real estate with your ira(or roth ira) works?

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Panama City.

Purchase price: $84,000

Cash invested: $50,000

Sale price: $180,000

Foreclosed property, initial repairs of $100...

My wife has a significant balance in her TIAA-CREF account (she is a college professor). Has anyone successfully used TIAA-CREF as a method to purchase real estate similar to using a self-directed IRA? TIAA-CREF is ...

I work for a Fortune 100 company with a good 401(k) plan. Unfortunately, their "Self-Directed" IRA program is nothing more than the ability to pick your own stocks/bonds. Real estate and other hard asset acquisit...

A couple quick questions that hopefully someone has some experience with.  I am looking at moving into a self directed IRA to purchase additional rental properties.  Usually depreciation is one of the most valuable ta...

not sure if this is the appropriate forum, so I also posted on one other forum.  here goes:SD-IRA, checkbook control (LLC). want to purchase multiplex for 290k but finance around 30-40%. I am told that the loan to t...

I'd like to get started in Rental Homes in my area.  I've built a couple of houses for my family from the ground up.  I've always liked houses and construction.  We had a rental property years ago that I remodeled, bu...

I'm in the process of establishing an SDIRA, which will hold 100% of the member interests of a to-be-formed LLC. Does anyone have a sample "IRA LLC" operating agreement (or web link to an op agreement) which you woul...

Hi everyone, my wife recently reached the dream of being able to retire at 49 thanks to rental properties.  Some of her properties are in her self directed IRA.  A provision in the IRS code known as 72T allows one to ...

Hi BP!!!I am interested in getting into real estate and looking at a 6 unit multifamily for $250K.Before I proceed I was wondering which is the best option:1) Get a conventional loan with 20-25% down?2) Get a loan fro...