Editor’s note: Listen, folks, if you don’t yet have a self-directed IRA or you have one but haven’t grown it enough to really support you in your old age, I’m BEGGING you to make the time to get to the No Excuses Retirement Wealth Summit on August 12th and 13th in Columbus.  Even if you...

Being a Libertarian is HARD. First, you have to fend off all the 2 dimensional thinkers who believe that if you aren’t a conservative and aren’t a liberal, you either have no strong political stands, or you’re an anarchist. Then, you have to deal with the crazies in the party who are actually conservatives with...

This months’ deal evaluation comes from Mike Nees, a member from Columbus, Ohio, who wholesales and owns rental properties. He’s been in real estate since the 90’s, but is a relative newbie to investing in self-directed accounts, He’s one of the half-dozen real-life investors presenting at the 2017 Tax-Free Investing Summit in Columbus on August...

Alan Cowgill is a 20 year veteran of the real estate investing business and perhaps the most widely known expert in the U.S. on the topic of raising private money. He’s also one of 13 featured speakers at this years National Real Estate Summit sponsored by OREIA. You can register for that now at a...

Back in February, I wrote a couple of articles about the return of the “Work for Equity” deal (you can find them in the blog feed on the Inner Circle page). Since that time, I’ve done several more of these deals, which look like this: The property is a single family home, typically in a...