The Insider's Guide to Tax-Free Real Estate Investments: Retire Rich Using Your IRA

ISBN-13: 9780470043981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 260 str.

Diane Kennedy; Dolf de Roos

Opis

This guide from bestselling real estate authors de Roos and Kennedy shows you how to use tax-free retirement funds to invest in real estate. Using real estate IRAs, you can combine the tax benefits of retirement funds with the high rates of appreciation in the real estate market, growing your retirement investments by leaps and bounds. This handy book shows you how.

Spis treści

Preface.

Introduction: The Secret Financial Planners Don t Want You to Know.

SECTION ONE: Why Traditional Thinking Isn t Going to Work Anymore.

CHAPTER 1. Why Some Retirement Plans Are Failing.

CHAPTER 2. How Much Is Enough?

CHAPTER 3. Another Ticking Tax Bomb.

SECTION TWO: Alternative Plans for Work and Retirement.

CHAPTER 4. Getting Rich in Today s World.

CHAPTER 5. Saving for Retirement.

CHAPTER 6. New Strategies for New Plans.

SECTION THREE: Putting Your Money to Work.

CHAPTER 7. More Secrets Your Financial Planner Never Told You.

CHAPTER 8. Distributions from Your Pension Fund.

SECTION FOUR: Strategies to Make Your Money Work Even Harder with Less Effort.

CHAPTER 9. The IRA or Tax–Free LLC: Control from a Distance.

CHAPTER 10. The Nuts and Bolts of Setting Up, Maintaining, and Running Your IRA or Tax–Free LLC.

SECTION FIVE: Tricks and Traps of Leverage.

CHAPTER 11. Leveraging Your Money.

CHAPTER 12. The Consequences of Leveraging.

SECTION SIX: Business Tips,Real Estate Flips, and Power Trips.

CHAPTER 13. What Kind of Real Estate Should You Buy (and How Do You Find It)?

CHAPTER 14. What Kind of Businesses Should You Buy (and How Do You Do It)?

CHAPTER 15. Investing beyond Our Borders.

SECTION SEVEN: It s Never Too Late.

CHAPTER 16. What If You re 40+ and Have No Pension?

CHAPTER 17. What If You ve Got All Your Money Tied Up in a Traditional 401(k)?

CHAPTER 18. Is Real Estate Over?

Conclusion.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Index.

Meet Diane Kennedy.

Meet Dolf de Roos.

O autorze

DIANE KENNEDY, CPA, is a top real estate author and investing expert. She is the founder and owner of DKA, a leading tax strategy and accounting firm. She is also the author of Loopholes of the Rich and coauthor of The Insider′s Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes, both from Wiley.

DOLF de ROOS, PhD, invests in real estate around the world and is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He frequently conducts seminars across the nation and throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe. He is Chairman of the public real estate investment company Property Ventures Limited, and a founder of the Best Choice Properties Group. He is also the author of Real Estate Riches and coauthor of The Insider′s Guide to Making Money in Real Estate and The Insider′s Guide to 52 Homes in 52 Weeks, all from Wiley.

Blurb

Learn the secrets of tax–free investing!

No one likes to pay taxes, especially on their retirement money. It′s a good thing you don′t have to! By tapping your tax–deferred retirement savings as a source of real estate investment capital, you can safely and legally grow your nest egg tax–free. The Insider′s Guide to Tax–Free Real Estate Investments presents simple and efficient low– or no–tax ways to grow your retirement funds. Even if you′re an older worker who hasn′t saved a dime, it′s never too late to get started and the benefits are incalculable.

In this enlightening money–saving guide, you′ll learn all the tax–busting secrets financial planners keep to themselves, including how to use a real estate IRA to combine the tax benefits of retirement savings with the high rates of appreciation in real estate investing to grow your savings at light–speed. You′ll learn seven powerful strategies for immediately accessing your pension money to build wealth and much more, including:

• Why traditional retirement thinking doesn′t work anymore
• How to put your pension money to work as real estate investment capital
• The nuts and bolts of setting up, maintaining, and operating an IRA or tax–free LLC
• How to leverage your investment money for maximum return
• What kind of business and real estate investments are best for growing retirement funds
• Why it′s never too late to start investing for your future